Thomas Oliphant

THOMAS OLIPHANT has been a correspondent for The Boston
Globe since 1968 and its Washington, D.C., columnist since
1989. He is a native of Brooklyn, a product of La Jolla
High School in California, and a 1967 graduate of Harvard.

Oliphant was one of three editors on special assignment who
managed the Globe’s coverage of Boston’s traumatic school
desegregation, reporting that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize
in 1975. He has also won the writing award given by the
American Society of Newspaper Editors. He has appeared on
ABC’s `Nightline, The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer, Face
The Nation, The Today Show, Good Morning
America,
and CBS This Morning. He has been named one of the
country's Top Ten political writers and one of Washington's
fifty most influential journalists by Washington Magazine.
Mr. Oliphant lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, CBS
correspondent Susan Spencer.