Background
Bumiller, Elisabeth was born on May 15, 1956 in Aalborg, Denmark, in the family of Theodore R. and Gunhild Eiken Moeller Rose Bumiller. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when she was three years old.
Bumiller, Elisabeth was born on May 15, 1956 in Aalborg, Denmark, in the family of Theodore R. and Gunhild Eiken Moeller Rose Bumiller. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when she was three years old.
Bumiller attended Walnut Hills High School, where she reported for the school newspaper, the Walnut Hills Chatterbox. She graduated in 1974. Bumiller then attended Northwestern University as an undergraduate in the Medill School of Journalism, graduating in 1977. She wrote for the Daily Northwestern. She received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979.
Bumiller's began her career at the Miami Herald. Elisabeth's first journalism job in Washington was as a party reporter for the Washington Post Style section, where she covered Washington society.
In 1985, after Weisman took up the post of New Delhi bureau chief for the Times, Bumiller moved to India and continued to write for the Style section of the Post.
In 1992, Weisman and Bumiller moved to New York, where Weisman took up the post as deputy foreign editor for the Times.
From fall 1999 until 2001, Bumiller became New York City Hall bureau chief, where she covered the mayoral administration of Rudolph Giuliani and Giuliani's abortive 2000 bid for the U.S. Senate against Hillary Clinton.
In 2001, Bumiller was promoted to White House correspondent for the Times, serving in that role from September 10, 2001 to 2006.
Beginning in June 2006, Bumiller took a one-year leave of absence from the Times to write a biography of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
In 2008, Bumiller covered the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain for the Times.
Married Steven R. Weisman in 1983. They had children Madeleine and Theodore.