Glenn Frankel

Glenn Frankel
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Occupation(s)Author and Journalist
OrganizationThe Washington Post
AwardsNational Jewish Book Award (1995)
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1989)

Glenn Frankel is an American author and academic, journalist and winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.[1] He spent 27 years with The Washington Post, where he was bureau chief in Richmond (Va.), Southern Africa, Jerusalem and London, and editor of The Washington Post Magazine.[2] He served as a visiting journalism professor at Stanford University and as Director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.[3] Author of five books, his latest works explore the making of an iconic American movie in the context of the historical era it reflects. In 2018 Frankel was named a Motion Picture Academy Film Scholar.[4] He was named a 2021-2 research fellow of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York for a book about Beatles manager Brian Epstein.[5]

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  2. ^ "Biography". Glenn Frankel. Archived from the original on 2019-08-18. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  3. ^ "School of Journalism director Glenn Frankel to leave UT after 2013-2014 academic year - The Daily Texan". dailytexanonline.com. Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  4. ^ "The Academy Announces 2018 Film Scholars Grant Recipients". Oscars.org. June 20, 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-08-18. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  5. ^ Ziolkowski, Thad (8 April 2021). "The 2021 - 2022 Biography Fellows". Leon Levy Center for Biography. Archived from the original on 2023-09-30. Retrieved 2024-01-06.