About Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for the New York Times since November of 2001. He is known for writing about foreign affairs, especially global issues like global health, poverty, and human trafficking. Kristof was born in Chicago, Illinois but grew up on a farm in Yamhill, Oregon. He attended Harvard where he studied government and worked on the Harvard Crimson Newspaper. In 1990, he and his wife became the first married couple to win a Pulitzer prize for journalism. They won it for reporting on the pro-democracy student movement and the related Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Kristof has also received the George Polk Award and an award from the Overseas Press Club for his reporting which focuses on human rights and environmental issues. In 2006, Kristof won his second Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world." Even though Kristof only won the Pulitzer prize twice, he was a finalist for it six times.