Thomas Friedman
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Friedman was born in
Minneapolis in 1953. He graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis
University and received a master's degree from Oxford University in 1978.
Upon graduation,
he joined the London bureau of United Press International and
was dispatched to Beirut. He lived in Beirut until May 1981, and then
went to work for
The New York Times.
In 1982, he was appointed The New York Times Beirut bureau chief, and, two years later, he became the newspaper's Israel bureau chief. In June 1989, Friedman published his reflections on the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem, which remained on the national best-seller list for a full year. Published in 10 languages, it won the 1989 National Book Award and the Overseas Press Club Award.
Friedman served The Times' as chief diplomatic correspondent, chief White House correspondent and international economic correspondent. He became the paper's foreign affairs columnist in 1995. Friedman, who regularly appears on Face the Nation as well as other public affairs programs, lives in Bethesda, Md., with his wife and two daughters.