![]() ![]() The bestselling Lexus and the Olive Tree won the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. Friedman wrote about his experiences as a Jewish-American reporter in the Middle East in From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won the National Book Award in 1989. In 2002, Friedman won his third Pulitzer Prize, this time for Commentary. ![]() He moved to the op-ed page of The New York Times as a foreign affairs columnist. Friedman began his career as a correspondent for United Press International and later served as bureau chief for the New York Times in Beirut and Jerusalem. He won a second Pulitzer for his work in Israel. ![]() His reporting on the war in Lebanon won the George Polk Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Friedman graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean Studies and earned a graduate degree from Oxford in Modern Middle East Studies. Friedman was born in 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ![]()
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