- Glenn Frankel
Glenn Frankel is a
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and former editor of the Washington Post Sunday magazine. He is also the acclaimed author of two books, "Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel" and "Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa". He currently works as a faculty member in the Communication Department atStanford University .Background
Frankel graduated from
Columbia University and began working as a reporter in 1973 for theRichmond Mercury (Virginia). After working for two years with the Mercury, Frankel joined "The Record", a newspaper servicing Bergen County in New Jersey, in 1975. Frankel left "The Record" to joinThe Washington Post in 1979; he remained with the Post for the next 27 years covering international, and national news in a variety of capacities. Frankel was awarded the prestigious Knight Fellowship at Stanford in 1983. Between 1983 and 1986, Frankel worked as the Southern Africa bureau chief. From 1986 to 1989, Frankel served as thebureau chief inJerusalem , a stint that brought him the prestigious Pulitzer award. From 1989 to 1992, he worked as the London Bureau chief. After 1992, Frankel returned to the US to work in the Washington Post newsroom.Awards
Glenn Frankel won the
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1989 for his "sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East".Mr Frankel's first book, "Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel" was awarded the
National Jewish Book Award .Related Links
* [http://www.glennfrankel.com Official Website]
* [http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/frankel.html Stanford University profile]
* [http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=347331 Simon and Schuster website for the book]
* [http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/former.html Knight Fellowship page listing former fellows]
* [http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?1580,35 Pultizer Prize page listing winners from 1989]
* [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/glenn+frankel/ Washington Post page listing Glenn Frankel's articles]
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