Fox Butterfield

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Fox Butterfield (born 1939 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania[1]) is an American journalist who spent much of his 30-year career[2] reporting for The New York Times.

Butterfield served as Times bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York. During that time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971.

Butterfield's books include China: Alive in the Bitter Sea (1982) and All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (1995)[3].

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[edit] Personal

Butterfield is the son of Lyman Henry Butterfield, a historian and a director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Va.[4] The Canadian industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton was one of Fox Butterfield's grandfathers.

Butterfield received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude, master's degree, and doctor of philosophy in Chinese history from Harvard University.

In 1988, Butterfield married Elizabeth Mehren, a reporter for The Los Angeles Times[4]. He has two children, Ethan and Sarah, from a previous marriage and a son, Sam, with Mehren[5].

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Michael Moriarty played Fox Butterfield in the 1993 television movie Born Too Soon, based on Mehren's book about their daughter Emily, who was born prematurely in the late 1980's. Mehren was played by Pamela Reed.

[edit] Bibliography

  • China: Alive in the Bitter Sea.
  • All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The Prentice-Hall Reader, Chapter 7 (6th Edition) Accessed 23 April 2007.
  2. ^ The 1999 Bureau of Justice Assistance National Partnership Meeting: Working Together for Peace and Justice in the 21st Century.
  3. ^ NewsHour Online: David Gergen interviews author Fox Butterfield. Accessed 23 April 2007.
  4. ^ a b "Elizabeth Mehren and Fox Butterfield, Newspaper Reporters, Marry in Utah." The New York Times, 31 January 1988.
  5. ^ Interview with Elizabeth Mehren, author of Born Too Soon Accessed 23 April 2007.


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