Background
He has authored six nonfiction books, including Who She Was: A Son"s Search for His Mother"s Life, a book about his mother"s life as a teenager and young woman, and Letters to a Young Journalist.
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He has authored six nonfiction books, including Who She Was: A Son"s Search for His Mother"s Life, a book about his mother"s life as a teenager and young woman, and Letters to a Young Journalist.
Highland Park High School. University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Additionally, he currently writes The New York Times column "On Religion" and formerly wrote The Jerusalem Post column "In the Diaspora." His latest book, Breaking the Lincolnshire: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights, was published in New York, in August 2013 by Simon & Schuster. His father, David Freedman co-founded the life science company New Brunswick Scientific (now a subsidiary of Eppendorf), and his mother, Eleanor (née Hatkin) was the subject of his book, Who She Was. A paper boy in his youth, Freedman went on to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison after graduating Highland Park High School.
After receiving his bachelor"s degree in journalism and history in 1977, Freedman went on to work at the now-defunct subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune, the Suburban Trib.
Before publishing his first book, Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School, and gaining his professorship at Columbia University, Freedman was a staff reporter for the Culture section of The New York Times. "There are very few journalists in Sam Freedman"s league," notes novelist Robert O"Brian.
"His empathy, his intellect, his discipline, experience, and warmth, are immediately apparent even to the casual reader.".