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Menu Menu Thomas L. FriedmanOfficial site for Thomas Friedman, NY Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn div#lazywpcarouselpro2.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-buttons {margin-top:-5px}div#lazywpcarouselpro2 div.single_wcp_item img{box-shadow:0 0 0;border-radius:0;float:left;width:100%;height:auto}div#lazywpcarouselpro2.owl-theme .owl-controls .owl-page span {background-color:#666;} Primary Menu Skip to content HomeBookshelfThank You for Being LateThat Used To Be UsThe World Is Flat, 3.0Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0From Beirut to JerusalemThe Lexus and the Olive TreeLongitudes and AttitudesOfficial BioMediaNYT ArticlesAppearances Search Secondary Menu Skip to content About FSGContact Out NowThank You For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of AccelerationsOne of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016Publishers WeeklyMore...Thomas L. FriedmanABOUT THOMAS L. FRIEDMANThomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and, columnist. He is the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes – two for international reporting from the Middle East and a third for his columns written about 9/11. He is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers — From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Longitudes and Attitudes, The World Is Flat, Hot Flat and Crowded, That Used To Be Us (with Michael Mandelbaum) and, most recently, Thank You For Being Late. Friedman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 20, 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park.It was a visit to Israel with his parents during Christmas vacation in 1968–69 that stirred his interest in the Middle East, and it was his high school journalism teacher, Hattie Steinberg, who inspired in him a love of reporting and newspapers. Fun fact: St. Louis Park was immortalized in the 2009 Coen brothers movie, A Serious Man. Friedman, Ethan and Joel Coen, Senator Al Franken, political scientist Norman J. Ornstein, former NFL football coach Marc Trestman, Harvard University philosopher Michael J. Sandel and author Peggy Orenstein all grew up around St. Louis Park in the 1960s and early 70s — and most of them went to St. Louis Park High School and the local Hebrew school. The Coen brothers once compared St. Louis Park to the small region in Hungary that had produced numerous nuclear physicists and Draculas.Friedman earned his B.A. from Brandeis in 1975 and was awarded a Marshall Scholarship by the British government and earned an M.Phil in Modern Middle East Studies from St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He started his journalism career with UPI on London’s legendary Fleet Street in 1978. After serving as a Beirut reporter for UPI for two years he was hired by the New York Times in 1981, where he served as the Beirut bureau chief, Jerusalem bureau chief, chief diplomatic correspondent, international economics correspondent and, since 1995, its foreign affairs columnist.Friedman is the son of Harold and Margaret Friedman. He has two older sisters, Shelley and Jane. His wife, Ann, is the founder of the word-language-literacy museum — Planet Word — in Washington DC. Friedman is the museum’s Vice Chairman. He and is wife have two daughters, Orly and Natalie.READ THE FULL BIOGRAPHYThomas Friedman's Talk at Western Golf Association Thomas Friedman's Commencement Speech at Olin College:Thomas Friedman Marvels at Speed of Global Change:Thomas L. Friedman in conversation with Dov Seidman:Thomas L. Friedman’s Next New World:Tom Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum — September 16th, 2011:Join the Mailing ListTo be notified about early excerpts, events and news about Thomas L. Friedman, please sign up here.NYT ArticlesThomas Friedman is the "Foreign Affairs" columnist for The New York Times. Below are links to articles and other content on their site (registration required).Thomas Friedman's recent "Foreign Affairs" columnsOther items of interest:President Obama Talks to Thomas L. Friedman About Iraq, Putin and IsraelRead the New York Times review of That Used to Be Us Copyright © 2022 Thomas L. Friedman. All Rights Reserved.Scroll UpHomeBookshelfThank You for Being LateThat Used To Be UsThe World Is Flat, 3.0Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0From Beirut to JerusalemThe Lexus and the Olive TreeLongitudes and AttitudesOfficial BioMediaNYT ArticlesAppearancesAbout FSGContact