Samuel G. Freedman

Samuel G. Freedman ( born 1955 ) is an American journalist and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he has taught since 1991. He lives and works in Manhattan. With his wife Cynthia he has two children. His brother Ken Freedman is the manager of the radio station WFMU.

Life

Freedman grew up in Highland Park (New Jersey). His education at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, he joined in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and history from.

In 1981, Freedman worked for The New York Times, where he belonged until 1987 to the staff of reporters and currently a columnist on religion and education. As a reporter, he also worked for the Courier News in Bridgewater and Suburban Tribe (a former supplement of the Chicago Tribune). In addition, his articles and columns have been published, inter alia, in Rolling Stone, USA Today, The Jerusalem Post and Salon.com.

1984 Freedman held a short-term appointment as adjunct professor of theater at the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

Since 1990, Freedman has published several non-fiction books. His debut album Small victories (1990 ) was nominated for the National Book Award and was shortlisted. For his second book, Upon this rock (1993 ) he received the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism The New York Public Library. The subsequent The inheritance (1997) was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize

Works

• Small victories: the real world of a teacher, her students, and Their highschool. Harper & Row, New York 1990. ISBN 0-06-016254-6.
• Upon this rock: the miracles of a black church. Harper Collins, New York 1993. ISBN 0-06-016610- X.
• The inheritance: how three families and moved America from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond. Simon & Schuster, New York 1996. ISBN 0-684-81116-2.
• Jew vs. Jew: the struggle for the soul of American Jewry. Simon & Schuster, New York 2000. ISBN 0-684-85944-0.
• Who she what: a son's search for his mother's life. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-2735-2.
• Letters to a young journalist. Basic Books, New York, 2006. ISBN 978-0-465-02455-1.