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Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman, a world-renowned author and
journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a
financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related
news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White
House, and international economics correspondents. A three-
time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of
thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the
end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign
policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact
of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which
appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated
to seven hundred other newspapers worldwide.
Friedman is the author of From Beirut to
Jerusalem (1989), which won both the National Book
Award and the Overseas Press Club Award in 1989 and was on
the New York Times bestseller list for nearly
twelve months. From Beirut to Jerusalem has been
published in more than twenty-seven languages, including
Chinese and Japanese, and is now used as a basic textbook
on the Middle East in many high schools and universities.
Friedman also wrote The Lexus and the Olive Tree
(1999), one of the best selling business books in 1999, and
the winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best
nonfiction book on foreign policy. It is now available in
twenty languages. His last book, Longitudes and
Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11,
issued by FSG in 2002, consists of columns Friedman
published about September 11 as well as a diary of his
private experiences and reflections during his reporting on
the post-September world as he traveled from Afghanistan to
Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia.
Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis
University with a degree in Mediterranean studies and
received a master's degree in modern Middle East studies
from Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at
Harvard University and has been awarded honorary degrees
from several U.S. universities. He lives in Bethesda,
Maryland, with his wife, Ann, and their two daughters.