Thomas Friedman
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Thomas Friedman joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC and oil-related news. He later served in succession as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondent. Since 1995 he has written the twice-weekly New York Times foreign affairs column that is syndicated to 700 other newspapers worldwide. He is the recipient of the National Book Award for From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) and has won multiple Overseas Press Club Awards for that and other books. His most recent book is the best-seller The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005). He lives in Maryland.