Glenn Frankel worked for 27 years at the Washington Post as a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. He is the author of two books and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He is teaching courses in basic news reporting and writing, magazine journalism and human rights.

A graduate of Columbia University, he began his newspaper career in 1973 at the Richmond (Va.) Mercury, then went to The Record in Bergen County, N.J., in 1975. He joined the Washington Post in 1979 as Richmond bureau chief. His first foreign posting was in 1983 as Southern Africa bureau chief, based in Harare, Zimbabwe, covering famine, development issues and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. In 1986 he became Jerusalem bureau chief, winning the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for "balanced and sensitive reporting" of the first Palestinian intifada. He became London bureau chief in 1989, reporting on the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the political demise of Margaret Thatcher and the Gulf War. (more ... »)

Awards Pulitzer Prize (1989) for "sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East" National Jewish Book Award for the book "Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel"