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David K. Shipler
David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Among his other publications the book entitled, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, also has garnered many awards. Formerly, he was a foreign correspondent of The New York Times and served as one of their bureau chiefs. He taught at many colleges and universities. Since 2010, he has published the electronic journal, The Shipler Report. He began co-hosting the podcast, Two Reporters in 2021. A collection of his poems was published in 2023.
Shipler was born and grew up in Chatham, New Jersey. His mother, Eleanor Karr Shipler, taught English and upon her death, her family established the Eleanor Shipler English Award that is granted to persistent students. His grandfather, Edmund J. Karr, was a Manhattan businessman.[citation needed]
Shipler attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1964; He served in the U.S. Navy as an officer on a destroyer, 1964–66.
Shipler joined The New York Times as a news clerk in 1966. He was promoted to city staff reporter in 1968. He covered housing, poverty, and politics and he won awards from the American Political Science Association, the New York Newspaper Guild, and other organizations.
During 1973–75 he served as a New York Times correspondent in Saigon, covering South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. He also reported from Burma.
In 1975, Shipler spent a semester at the Russian Institute of Columbia University studying the Russian language, Soviet politics, economics, and history in order to prepare for assignment in Moscow. He served as correspondent in The New York Times Moscow Bureau for four years, 1975–79, and as Moscow bureau chief from 1977 to 1979. He wrote the best-seller Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams, which was published in 1983 and updated in 1989. The book won the Overseas Press Club Award in 1983 as the best book that year on foreign affairs.
From 1979 to 1984, Shipler served as bureau chief of The New York Times in Jerusalem. He was co-recipient (with Thomas Friedman) of the 1983 George Polk Award for covering the 1982 Lebanon War. At the end of his period in Israel he was reprimanded by the director of the Israeli government's press office for breaking military censorship rules by publishing a report about a bus hijacking after which two captured hijackers were killed.
He spent a year, 1984–85, as a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. to write Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, which explores the mutual perceptions and relationships between Arabs and Jews in Israel and the West Bank. The book won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and was extensively revised and updated in 2002. He was executive producer, writer, and narrator of a two-hour PBS documentary on Arab and Jew, which won a 1990 Dupont-Columbia award for broadcast journalism, and of a one-hour film, "Arab and Jew: Return to the Promised Land", which aired on PBS during August 2002.
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David K. Shipler
David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Among his other publications the book entitled, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, also has garnered many awards. Formerly, he was a foreign correspondent of The New York Times and served as one of their bureau chiefs. He taught at many colleges and universities. Since 2010, he has published the electronic journal, The Shipler Report. He began co-hosting the podcast, Two Reporters in 2021. A collection of his poems was published in 2023.
Shipler was born and grew up in Chatham, New Jersey. His mother, Eleanor Karr Shipler, taught English and upon her death, her family established the Eleanor Shipler English Award that is granted to persistent students. His grandfather, Edmund J. Karr, was a Manhattan businessman.[citation needed]
Shipler attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1964; He served in the U.S. Navy as an officer on a destroyer, 1964–66.
Shipler joined The New York Times as a news clerk in 1966. He was promoted to city staff reporter in 1968. He covered housing, poverty, and politics and he won awards from the American Political Science Association, the New York Newspaper Guild, and other organizations.
During 1973–75 he served as a New York Times correspondent in Saigon, covering South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. He also reported from Burma.
In 1975, Shipler spent a semester at the Russian Institute of Columbia University studying the Russian language, Soviet politics, economics, and history in order to prepare for assignment in Moscow. He served as correspondent in The New York Times Moscow Bureau for four years, 1975–79, and as Moscow bureau chief from 1977 to 1979. He wrote the best-seller Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams, which was published in 1983 and updated in 1989. The book won the Overseas Press Club Award in 1983 as the best book that year on foreign affairs.
From 1979 to 1984, Shipler served as bureau chief of The New York Times in Jerusalem. He was co-recipient (with Thomas Friedman) of the 1983 George Polk Award for covering the 1982 Lebanon War. At the end of his period in Israel he was reprimanded by the director of the Israeli government's press office for breaking military censorship rules by publishing a report about a bus hijacking after which two captured hijackers were killed.
He spent a year, 1984–85, as a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. to write Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, which explores the mutual perceptions and relationships between Arabs and Jews in Israel and the West Bank. The book won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and was extensively revised and updated in 2002. He was executive producer, writer, and narrator of a two-hour PBS documentary on Arab and Jew, which won a 1990 Dupont-Columbia award for broadcast journalism, and of a one-hour film, "Arab and Jew: Return to the Promised Land", which aired on PBS during August 2002.