Glenn Frankel

Last updated
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 PostMagazine. [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]

Contents

Background

Frankel was born in the Bronx, N.Y., on Oct. 2, 1949, grew up in Rochester, N.Y., 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 1982-3 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 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]

Books

Frankel's first book, Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel (Simon & Schuster, 1994), won the 1995 National Jewish Book Award in the Israel category. [12] His second, Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999) was a finalist in 2000 for the Alan Paton Award, South Africa's highest literary prize for non-fiction. He was awarded an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship for book research. [13]

The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend (Bloomsbury, 2013) was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2013 L.A Times Book Prize. [14] [15] It was named one of Library Journal's Top Ten Books of 2013 and won the Richard Wall Memorial Award for exemplary research from the Theatre Library Association. [16] [17]

High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (Bloomsbury, 2017) was an L.A Times bestseller.(citation) "Frankel reviews the now familiar history of the blacklist with grace and accuracy," wrote an L.A. Times Review. [18] "His descriptions of witness testimony are particularly vivid...Fascinating." [19]

Frankel was named a 2018 Motion Picture Academy Film Scholar and awarded a $25,000 grant to aid his research for a book project on New York in the 1960s and the making of the film Midnight Cowboy. [20] The book, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation and the Making of a Dark Classic, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2021. [21] The book inspired Nancy Buirski's 2022 film documentary, Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight City. [22]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pulitzer Prize</span> Award for achievements in journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States

The Pulitzer Prize is an award administered by Columbia University for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography</span> American photojournalism award

The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. From 2000 it has used the "breaking news" name but it is considered a continuation of the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, which was awarded from 1968 to 1999. Prior to 1968, a single Prize was awarded for photojournalism, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was replaced in that year by Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting</span> American journalism award

This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence. In its first six years (1942–1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International.

Howard E. Koch was an American playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studio bosses in the 1950s.

Jimmie Lee Hoagland is a Pulitzer prize-winning American journalist. He is a contributing editor to The Washington Post, since 2010, previously serving as an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent, and columnist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steve Coll</span> Journalist, author, academic, and business executive (born 1958)

Steve Coll is an American journalist, academic, and executive.

Max Frankel is an American journalist. He was executive editor of The New York Times from 1986 to 1994.

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1973.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">T. Christian Miller</span>

T. Christian Miller is an investigative reporter, editor, author, and war correspondent for ProPublica. He has focused on how multinational corporations operate in foreign countries, documenting human rights and environmental abuses. Miller has covered four wars — Kosovo, Colombia, Israel and the West Bank, and Iraq. He also covered the 2000 presidential campaign. He is also known for his work in the field of computer-assisted reporting and was awarded a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 2012 to study innovation in journalism. In 2016, Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism with Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project. In 2019, he served as a producer of the Netflix limited series Unbelievable, which was based on the prize-winning article. In 2020, Miller shared the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with other reporters from ProPublica and The Seattle Times. With Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi, Miller co-won the 2020 award for his reporting on United States Seventh Fleet accidents.

Anne Elise Kornblut is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist who is currently serving as Vice President of Global Curation at Facebook. Kornblut has previously served as the deputy national editor of The Washington Post, overseeing national politics, national security and health/science/environmental coverage.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Moody College of Communication</span> American college at the University of Texas at Austin

The Moody College of Communication is the communication college at The University of Texas at Austin. The college is home to top-ranked programs in advertising and public relations, communication studies, communication and leadership, speech, language and hearing sciences, journalism, and radio-television-film. The Moody College is nationally recognized for its faculty members, research and student media. It offers seven undergraduate degrees, including those in Journalism, Advertising, and Radio-Television-Film, and 17 graduate programs. The Moody College of Communication operates out of the Jesse H. Jones Communication Complex and the Dealey Center for New Media, which opened in November 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barton Gellman</span> American journalist and Sr Advisor, Brennan Center for Justice

Barton David Gellman is an American author and journalist known for his reports on the September 11 attacks, on Dick Cheney's vice presidency, and on the global surveillance disclosure. Beginning in June 2013, he authored The Washington Post's coverage of the U.S. National Security Agency, based on top secret documents provided to him by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. He published a book for Penguin Press on the rise of the surveillance-industrial state in May 2020, and joined the staff of The Atlantic.

Bob Drogin is an American journalist and author. He worked for the Los Angeles Times, for nearly four decades. Drogin began his career with the Times as a national correspondent, based in New York, traveling to nearly every state in the United States. He spent eight years as a foreign correspondent, and as bureau chief in Manila and Johannesburg, before returning to the U.S. He covered intelligence and national security in the Washington bureau, from 1998 until retiring in November 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Isabel Wilkerson</span> American journalist

Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

Tony Bartelme, an American journalist and author, is the senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. He has been a finalist for four Pulitzer Prizes.

Joel Graham Brinkley was an American syndicated columnist. He taught in the journalism program at Stanford University from 2006 until 2013, after a 23-year career with The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980 and was twice a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ty McCormick</span>

Ty McCormick is an American author, foreign correspondent, and magazine editor. He is currently a senior editor of Foreign Affairs, the magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2015 to 2018, he was the Africa editor at Foreign Policy magazine. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tom Hamburger</span> American journalist

Tom Hamburger is an American journalist. He is an investigative journalist for The Washington Post. He is a 2018 Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award recipient and a political analyst for MSNBC.

James V. Risser is an American journalist and Emeritus Professor of Communication at Stanford University.

<i>Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</i> 2018 book by David W. Blight

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom is a 2018 biography of African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, written by historian David W. Blight. It was published in 2018 by Simon & Schuster and won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History.

References

  1. ↑ "The 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  2. ↑ "Biography". Glenn Frankel. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  3. ↑ "School of Journalism director Glenn Frankel to leave UT after 2013-2014 academic year - The Daily Texan". dailytexanonline.com. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  4. ↑ "The Academy Announces 2018 Film Scholars Grant Recipients". Oscars.org. June 20, 2018. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  5. ↑ Ziolkowski, Thad. "The 2021 - 2022 Biography Fellows". Leon Levy Center for Biography. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  6. ↑ "Bookshelf". Columbia College Today. 2021-09-13. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  7. ↑ "Class of 1983". John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  8. ↑ "1989 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  9. ↑ "Glenn Frankel named director of journalism school at U. of Texas - academicjobs.net". www.academicjobs.net. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  10. ↑ Pulitzer Prize Winner Named UT School of Journalism Director
  11. ↑ "Glenn's Articles". glennfrankel. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  12. ↑ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  13. ↑ "Fellows | Alicia Patterson Foundation". aliciapatterson.org. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  14. ↑ "BIO". glennfrankel. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  15. ↑ Hoffert, Barbara. "Finalists Announced for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes". Library Journal. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  16. ↑ "BIO". glennfrankel. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  17. ↑ Association, Theatre Library (2014-09-13). "TLA Announces 2013 Book Award Winners". Theatre Library Association. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  18. ↑ "Refugees and free speech: How Hollywood classics 'Casablanca' and 'High Noon' were shaped by politics". Los Angeles Times. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  19. ↑ "Refugees and free speech: How Hollywood classics 'Casablanca' and 'High Noon' were shaped by politics". Los Angeles Times. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  20. ↑ "THE ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 2018 FILM SCHOLARS GRANT RECIPIENTS". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2021-04-02. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  21. ↑ "'Midnight Cowboy' was a masterpiece made of desperation". Washington Post. 2021-04-02. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  22. ↑ "DESPERATE SOULS AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY". AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.