Glenn Frankel
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1989)
Glenn Frankel | |
|---|---|
| Education | Columbia University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Author and Journalist |
| Organization | The Washington Post |
| Awards | National Jewish Book Award (1995) Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1989) |
Glenn Frankel is an American author and academic, journalist and winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.[1] He spent 27 years with The Washington Post, where he was bureau chief in Richmond (Va.), Southern Africa, Jerusalem and London, and editor of The Washington Post Magazine.[2] He served as a visiting journalism professor at Stanford University and as Director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.[3] Author of five books, his latest works explore the making of an iconic American movie in the context of the historical era it reflects. In 2018 Frankel was named a Motion Picture Academy Film Scholar.[4] He was named a 2021-2 research fellow of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York for a book about Beatles manager Brian Epstein.[5]
Frankel was born in the Bronx, on October 2, 1949, grew up in Rochester, New York, and graduated from Columbia University in 1971.[6] He began his journalism career in 1973 as a staff writer for the Richmond Mercury in Richmond, Virginia. After the Mercury ceased publication in 1975, he joined the Bergen Record in Hackensack, New Jersey. In 1979, he joined the Metro staff of The Washington Post. After spending the 1982-83 academic year as a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University he became the Post's Southern Africa bureau chief, based in Harare, Zimbabwe, where he covered famine, war, and the struggle against South Africa's apartheid regime.[7] In 1986 he moved to Jerusalem, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for "sensitive and balanced coverage" of the first Palestinian uprising.[8] From 1989 to 1992 he served as the Post's London bureau chief, covering the political demise of Margaret Thatcher, the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War. He returned to The Washington Post newsroom in 1993 where he served as Deputy National News Editor and editor of the Post's Sunday magazine, after which he returned to London for a second term as bureau chief. After leaving the Post in 2006, he spent four years as the Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor in journalism at Stanford, serving as faculty advisor to the Stanford Daily and The Real News, Stanford's only African-American news publication.[9] From 2010 to 2014 he served as G.B. Dealey Regents Professor in Journalism at UT Austin and director of the School of Journalism.[10] Besides writing for The Washington Post, Frankel's work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Mother Jones, New Statesman, Moment, Zocalo Public Square, and several anthologies.[11]
