Samuel G. Freedman

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Sam G. Freedman
Occupation(s)Author, journalist

Samuel G. Freedman is an American author and journalist and currently a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

He has authored six nonfiction books, including Who She Was: A Son's Search for His Mother's Life,[1] a book about his mother's life as a teenager and young woman, and Letters to a Young Journalist.[2]

Freedman has won the National Jewish Book Award[3][4] in 2000 in the Non-Fiction category for Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry.[5] His book The Inheritance: How Three Families Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond[6] was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights, was published in New York, in August 2013 by Simon & Schuster.

Freedman currently writes the "On Religion" column in The New York Times and formerly wrote The Jerusalem Post column "In the Diaspora."

  1. ^ Samuel G. Freedman (2005), Who She Was: A Son's Search for His Mother's Life, New York: Simon & Schuster.
  2. ^ Samuel G. Freedman (2006/revised and updated, 2011) Letters to a Young Journalist, New York: Basic Books.
  3. ^ "Jewish Book World- Winners". 2006-05-24. Archived from the original on 2006-05-24. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  4. ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  5. ^ Samuel G. Freedman (2000), Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, New York: Simon & Schuster.
  6. ^ Samuel G. Freedman (1996), The Inheritance: How Three Families Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond, New York: Simon & Schuster.