Glenn Frankel

Glenn Frankel is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and former editor of the Washington Post Sunday magazine. He is also the acclaimed author of two books, "Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel" and "Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa". He currently serves as the director of the School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin. Frankel graduated from Columbia University and began working as a reporter in 1973 for the Richmond Mercury (Virginia). After working for two years with the Mercury, Frankel joined "The Record", a newspaper servicing Bergen County in New Jersey, in 1975. Frankel left "The Record" to join The Washington Post in 1979; he remained with the Post for the next 27 years, covering international and national news in a variety of capacities. Frankel was awarded the prestigious Knight Fellowship at Stanford in 1983. Between 1983 and 1986, Frankel worked as the Southern Africa bureau chief. From 1986 to 1989, Frankel served as the bureau chief in Jerusalem, a stint that brought him the prestigious Pulitzer award. From 1989 to 1992, he worked as the London Bureau chief.