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American journalist and author (born 1953)

For other people with the same name, see Tom Friedman (disambiguation).

Thomas Loren Friedman (FREED-mən; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author.

He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times.

Global weirding thomas friedman biography

He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues.

Friedman began his career as a reporter and won two Pulitzer Prizes in the 1980s for his coverage on conflict in Lebanon and politics in Israel, followed by a further prize in 2002 for commentary on the war on terror.

Early life and education

Friedman was born on July 20, 1953, in Minneapolis, Minnesota,^[2] the son of Margaret Blanche (née Phillips) and Harold Abe Friedman.^[3] Harold, who was vice president of a ball bearing company, United Bearing, died of a heart attack in 1973 when Tom was nineteen years