Howard W. French

HOWARD W. FRENCH wrote from Africa for The Washington Post and The New York Times. At the Times, he was bureau chief in Latin America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and China. He is the recipient of two Overseas Press Club awards, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. The author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, and Disappearing Shanghai: Images and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life, he has written for The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and Rolling Stone, among other national publications. He is on the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and lives in New York.