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 David
Shipler is a widely recognized authority on
foreign affairs. In 1987 he received the
Pulitzer Prize for his book, Arab and Jew:
Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, which
explores the perceptions and relationships
between Arabs and Jews in the West Bank. He
followed this with a PBS documentary titled Arab
and Jew, which won a 1990 Dupont-Columbia award
for broadcast journalism. Shipler served as
executive producer, writer and narrator for the
project.
Mr. Shipler is also the author of the
best-seller Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams
(published in 1983 and updated in 1989), which
received the 1983 Overseas Press Club Award for
best foreign affairs book of the year. Mr.
Shipler began his career at The New York Times
in 1966 where he won awards for his coverage of
urban issues.
During the 1970s he served
as the Times correspondent in southeast Asia and
then in Moscow as correspondent and bureau
chief. He also served as Bureau Chief in
Jerusalem and was co-recipient (with Thomas
Friedman) of the 1983 George Polk Award for
covering the Lebanon War. His last assignment
with the Times was as Chief Diplomatic
Correspondent in the newspaper's Washington
Bureau ending in 1988.
During the 1990s, Mr. Shipler was a senior
associate at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace writing on transitions to
democracy in Russia and Eastern Europe. His most
recent book, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and
Whites in America, was published in 1997. He was
one of three authors invited by President
Clinton to participate in the first town meeting
on race in Akron, Ohio, in December 1997.
David Shipler graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1964. He has taught at Princeton and American
Universities and has been writer-in-residence at
the University of Southern California, and
Woodrow Wilson Fellow at more than a dozen
campuses. |
Focused
on social justice
