Thomas Lauren Friedman was born on July 20th in 1953. He is a famous American journalist, a columnist and also a multi award price winner who won the "Pulitzer Prize". Friedman is a famous op-ed writer to the New York Times. His writings in the column come twice a week. Thomas Lauren Friedman has written a lot of articles largely on he Middle East environmental issues and also on the foreign and external affairs of the state including the global trade. Friedman is a writer who won the famous prize called the "Pulitzer Prize". This is supposed to be a very famous award and Friedman won it for three times. He had won the prize two times for International reporting in 1983 and 1988 and then one time for his commentary in the year 2002. Friedman is one of the boards of members of the Prize called Pulitzer from 2004 till now.
Thomas Lauren Friedman's Personal Life:
Friedman was born at "St. Louis Park", in Minnesota, which is a suburb of the place called Minneapolis. Thomas Friedman went to the school called "St. Louis Park High School". During his school days itself he wrote a lot of articles and essays for his school
newspaper. In one of his article in school Friedman wrote about the Prime Minister of Israel who is Aerial Sharon. Thomas Friedman completed his graduation in the year 1971. Thomas Friedman completed his MPhil in the Studies of the Middle Eastern Countries.
Career of Thomas Lauren Friedman
Thomas Friedman after completing his Masters degree he joined "The London Bureau" of "The United Press International". He was later then dispatched after a year to "Beirut" there he waited until 1981. After this Friedman was taken as a reporter by "The New York Times" as a reporter and he was re dispatched to Beirut, in the beginning of the "Israeli invasion of Lebanon" in 1982. Thomas Friedman's coverage of the war, especially the Shatila and Sabra massacre had awarded him the "Pulitzer Prize" for Reporting internationally. Along with David K. Shipler he was awarded the "George Polk Award" some time in 1982 for Foreign Reporting.
From the years 1984 to 1988 Thomas Friedman was assigned to Jerusalem, where he won his second "Pulitzer Prize" because of his coverage on "First Palestinian Intifada". He then wrote a book "From Beirut to Jerusalem" in which he described his experiences of the various Middle East countries.
During the rule of President of the United States, George W. Bush Friedman covered the Secretary of State James Barker. In 1992, after the election of the President Bill Clinton, Friedman had become the "White House Correspondent" for the "Times". Later in 1994, Friedman started writing more about the economics and foreign policies and then turned his interest in the "op-ed page" of "the New York Times" the next year becoming a columnist for foreign affairs.
In February when Friedman was awarded the "Pulitzer Prize" in Commentary for his "clarity on vision" based on his wide reporting, and also commenting about the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat.
Around 2002 February, Thomas Friedman met the "Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah" and he personally encouraged the Prince to effectively make a strong attempt to stop the "Arab and Israeli conflict" by making normal relations with the Israelis in exchange for the return of the refugees along with the end to the Israel territorial occupations. It was then that Abdullah had proposed the "Arab Peace Initiative" at the summit in Beirut in March, which Thomas Friedman has supported since.
Friedman has been the winner of the "Overseas Press Club award" because of his lifetime achievement in 2004, and also has been given the name to the "Order of the British Empire" by Elizabeth the Queen.
