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Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for The Times since November
2001, writes op-ed columns that appear each Wednesday and Saturday.
Previously, he was associate managing editor of The Times, responsible
for Sunday editions.
Born on April 27, 1959, Mr. Kristof grew up on a cherry farm near
Yamhill, Oregon, and raised sheep for his Future Farmers of America
project. He graduated from Harvard College in three years, Phi
Beta Kappa, in 1981, and then won first class honors in his study
of law at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He later
studied Arabic in Cairo and Chinese in Taipei. After working in
France, he caught the travel bug and began backpacking around
Africa and Asia, writing articles to cover his expenses. Mr. Kristof
has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to
well over 100 countries. He has had unpleasant experiences with
malaria, mobs, war and an African airplane crash.
Mr. Kristof joined The New York Times in October 1984, initially
covering economics. After that, he served as a business correspondent
based in Los Angeles, Hong Kong bureau chief, Beijing bureau chief
and Tokyo bureau chief. In 2000, he covered the presidential campaign
and in particular Governor Bush, and he is the author of the chapter
on Mr. Bush in the reference book "The Presidents."
In 1990 Mr. Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, also a Times
journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China's
Tiananmen Square democracy movement. They were the first married
couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism. Mr. Kristof has won other
prizes including the George Polk Award and the Overseas Press
Club awards.
Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn are authors of "China Wakes: The
Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" and "Thunder
from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia." Mr. Kristof and
Ms. WuDunn are the parents of Gregory, Geoffrey and Caroline.
Mr. Kristof enjoys running, backpacking in the Oregon Cascades,
and having his Chinese and Japanese corrected by his children.
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