Fox Butterfield | |
|---|---|
 Fox Butterfield | |
| Born | July 8, 1939 Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Genre | Journalism, non-fiction |
Fox Butterfield (born 8 July 1939)[1] is an American journalist who spent much of his 30-year career[2] reporting for The New York Times.
Butterfield served as Times bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York City. During that time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971 and won a 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction for China: Alive in the Bitter Sea, an account of his experience as the first Times reporter allowed in China after the revolution.[3][a] He also wrote All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (1995)[4] about the child criminal Willie Bosket.
In 1990, Butterfield wrote an article on the first African-American to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review, future president of the United States Barack Obama.[5]
- ^ Shearer, Benjamin F. (2007). Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime (Volume I). Greenwood Press. p. 143; ISBN 0-313-33422-6. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ The 1999 Bureau of Justice Assistance National Partnership Meeting: Working Together for Peace and Justice in the 21st Century.
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1983". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
- ^ "NewsHour Online: David Gergen interviews author Fox Butterfield" Archived 2013-10-16 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
- ^ "First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review". Fox Butterfield. The New York Times, February 6, 1990.
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