Ron Suskind

Born in Kingston, New York in 1959, Ron Suskind studied at Colombia University and became a news reporter for The New York Times in 1983. He subsequently wrote for the St. Petersburg Times, was the editor of Boston Business magazine, and then returned to New York to write on the national affairs desk at the Wall Street Journal. While he was at the Wall Street Journal, Suskind wrote an article about Cedric Jennings, a young man from the inner city of Washington, D.C., who went on to study at Brown University; in 1995, Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize for the article, and then in 1998, he expanded it into a book entitled A Hope in the Unseen. Suskind has also written The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World, Confidence Men, and Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism, which is a memoir about his life with his autistic son, Owen.