Glenn Frankel is an author, academic and winner of the 1989
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
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. He spent 27 years with ''
The Washington Post
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'', where he was bureau chief in Richmond (Va.), Southern Africa, Jerusalem and London, and editor of ''The Washington Post'' ''Magazine''. He served as a visiting journalism professor at
Stanford University
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and as Director of the School of Journalism at the
University of Texas at Austin
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. Author of four 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.
Background
Frankel was born in the Bronx, N.Y., on Oct. 2, 1949, grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from
Columbia University
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in 1971. He began his journalism career in 1973 as a staff writer for the Richmond Mercury (Virginia). After the Mercury ceased publication in 1975, he joined the ''
Bergen Record
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'' in Hackensack, N.J. In 1979, he joined the Metro staff of ''
The Washington Post
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.'' 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. In 1986 he moved to Jerusalem, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for "sensitive and balanced coverage" of the first Palestinian uprising. 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. From 2010 to 2014 he served as G.B. Dealey Regents Professor in Journalism at
UT Austin
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and director of the School of Journalism. Besides writing for ''The Washington Post'', Frankel's work has appeared in ''Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Mother Jones, New Statesman, Moment'' magazine, and several anthologies.
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
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''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. 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.
''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.'' "His descriptions of witness testimony are particularly vivid...Fascinating."
Frankel was named a 2018 Motion Picture Academy Film Scholar and awarded a $25,000 grant to aid his research for his book project on New York in the 1960s and the making of ''Midnight Cowboy'', scheduled for publication in 2021 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.