Samuel Freedman

Samuel Freedman

Professor Freedman received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. He has worked as a reporter for the Bridgewater (N.J) Courier-News, Chicago Tribune’s Suburban Trib and The New York Times. He has been a contributor to Rolling Stone, Salon,and The New York Times and a contributing correspondent to PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. He is a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors and an adjunct professor of theatre at the Columbia University School of the Arts, 1984.

He is the author of Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School (1990), Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (1993), The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996), Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (2000.)

His achievements include being a finalist for the National Book Award, 1990; winning theHelen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, 1993; being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prizes, 1997; winning the New Jersey Humanities Council Book Award, 1997; earning the Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award, Society of Professional Journalists, 1997; and winning the National Jewish Book Award, 2000.

www.samuelfreedman.com