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Nationality
  
United States

Spouse
  
Mary D. Edsall

Role
  
Journalist

Name
  
Thomas Edsall

Known for
  
Author, academic


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Born
  
August 22, 1941 (age 82) (
1941-08-22
)
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Occupation
  
Journalist, Author, Professor

Parents
  
Richard Linn Edsall, Katherine Byrne

Education
  
Brown University, Boston University

Nominations
  
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

People also search for
  
Mary D. Edsall, Arianna Huffington, Karl Deutsch

Books
  
Chain Reaction: The Impa, Building Red America, The New Politics of Inequality, The Age of Austerity: How Scar, Power and Money: Writing a

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Thomas Byrne Edsall (born August 22, 1941) is an American journalist and liberal / progressive academic, currently serving as an adjunct faculty member https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/tom-edsall of the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York City. He is best known for his weekly opinion column for The New York Times online and for his 25 years covering national politics for the Washington Post.

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Life and career

From 2006 to 2014, Edsall served as the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at Columbia University, where he continues to teach in an adjunct capacity. In 2011, he became a weekly opinion columnist for the New York Times, where he currently continues. Previously, he covered national politics for the Washington Post from 1981 to 2006; covered politics for The Baltimore Sun (1967-1981); served as a VISTA volunteer (1966-1967); and reported for The Providence Journal (1965). He was the political editor of the Huffington Post from 2007 to 2009, a correspondent for The New Republic from 2006 to 2013 and for the National Journal from 2006 to 2007. In November and December 2006, Edsall was a guest columnist for the print edition of the New York Times Op-Ed page.

Edsall was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Linn Edsall and Katherine Byrne. He attended Brown University and received his B.A. from Boston University in 1966. He is married and lives in New York and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary (daughter of Karl Deutsch), with whom he co-authored the book Chain Reaction.

Awards and fellowships

  • Shapiro Fellowship, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University (2015)
  • Markwell Award of the International Society of Political Psychology (2014)
  • Finalist, General Non-Fiction, Pulitzer Prize, 1992, for Chain Reaction: The Impact on American Politics of Race, Rights and Taxes (W.W. Norton)
  • Bill Pryor Memorial Award, Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, 1981
  • Carey McWilliams Award, American Political Science Association, 1994
  • Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1996-1997
  • Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1997, 2000, 2003-2006, 2010-2012
  • References

    Thomas B. Edsall Wikipedia