David K. Shipler

David K. Shipler worked for the New York Times from
1966 to
1988, reporting from New York, Saigon, Moscow, and
Jerusalem before serving as chief diplomatic correspondent
in Washington, D.C. He has also written for The New
Yorker,
the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles
Times. He is the
author of three other books-Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn
Dreams; the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab and Jew:
Wounded
Spirits in a Promised Land; and A Country of
Strangers:
Blacks and Whites in America.

Mr. Shipler, who has been a guest scholar at the Brookings
Institution and a senior
associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, has taught at Princeton University, at American
University in Washington, D.C., and at Dartmouth College.
He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.