Nicholas Kristof

Biography

Nicholas Kristof is a columnist at The New York Times and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He grew up on a farm in Oregon, graduated from Harvard, earned a First in law at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and then studied Arabic in Cairo. He was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times in Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo, then covered presidential elections and served as editor of The Sunday New York Times. After 9/11, he became an op-ed columnist. Aside from his Pulitzers, he has won an Emmy and several humanitarian prizes. He has written six books, including the No. 1 best-seller “Half the Sky” and the memoir “Chasing Hope,” and has made several television documentaries. Kristof, who has lived on four continents and traveled to more than 160 countries, was The New York Times’s first blogger, first video maker and first Snapchat contributor.