Education
He graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric.
He graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric.
He started at the Times in 1976 as a copy boy. He left in 1979 to teach journalism at Columbia University while studying history. From 1995 to 2002, he was a foreign correspondent based in South Africa and France.
In 2013, he was featured in an acclaimed documentary about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome drugs, Fire In the Blood.
He lives in Brooklyn.