Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni
Born Frank Anthony Bruni
(1964-10-31) October 31, 1964
White Plains, New York, United States
Alma mater UNC Chapel Hill
Columbia University
Occupation Op-cd columnist, New York Times; former chief restaurant critic
Notable credit(s) The New York Times

Frank Anthony Bruni (born October 31, 1964) is an American journalist. He was the chief restaurant critic of the New York Times, from 2004 to 2009. In June 2011, he was named an Op-ed columnist for the newspaper—its first openly gay one. He is the author of two bestselling books, Born Round, a memoir about his family's love of food and his own struggles with overeating, and Ambling Into History, about George W. Bush.

Biography

Bruni graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 with a B.A. in English. He was a Morehead Scholar and was a staff writer for the student paper, The Daily Tar Heel.[1] Bruni graduated second in his class with a master of science degree in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he also won a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.

Straight out of Columbia, Bruni joined the staff of the New York Post and then moved on to the Detroit Free Press, where he wrote on a variety of topics, including the Persian Gulf War and movie reviews. In 1995, Bruni took a job with the New York Times as a metropolitan reporter and often wrote for the Times' Sunday magazine and for Sunday Arts. In 1998, he was assigned to the Washington, D.C. bureau, where he covered Capitol Hill and Congress, before being sent on the campaign trail to follow then-Texas Governor George W. Bush. He then covered the White House for the first eight months of the Bush administration and served as the Washington-based staff writer for Sunday magazine. In July 2002, he was promoted to the Rome bureau chief. Two years later, he became the Times’ restaurant critic. After five years in that position, he returned briefly to the magazine before becoming an op-ed columnist.

Bruni’s book Ambling into History chronicles his time covering Bush’s campaign. His other books include not only Born Round but also A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church.[2]

He is an avid travel writer whose work has appeared in the "Travel" section of the Times and in Conde Nast Traveler.

A frequent commentator on television news shows, especially on CNN and MSNBC, Bruni also served as a guest judge on Top Chef and appeared briefly in the movie Julie & Julia. And in the spring of 2014, he taught a journalism seminar at Princeton University.[3]

In March 2015, Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, released Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania, in which he examines many parents' and kids' obsession with elite colleges.[4]

While on the staff of the Free Press, Bruni was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for a portrait of a convicted pedophile.[5] In 1996, he and three colleagues won the George Polk Award for metropolitan reporting for their coverage of the child-abuse death of Elisa Izquierdo.[6] And he was awarded the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist in 2012 and 2013.[7]

Personal

Bruni is openly gay.[8] He has struggled with his eating and bulimia.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ Bruni, Frank (2009-07-19). "I Was a Baby Bulimic". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  2. ↑ "Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers", New York Times, September 13, 2009. Retrieved Jun 25, 2011.
  3. ↑ http://humanities.princeton.edu/journalism/courses/spring2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Delbanco, Andrew (2015-03-22). "Review: In ‘Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be,’ Frank Bruni Examines College Admissions Mania". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  5. ↑ http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/1992
  6. ↑ http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Polk/Previous.aspx#1995
  7. ↑ Bierly, Mandy (March 24, 2012). "GLAAD Media Awards honor Lady Gaga, 'DWTS,' 'Oprah Winfrey Show': Full winners list". Entertainment Weekly. ew.com. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Our Boys on the Bus". Out.com. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
  9. ↑ Bruni, Frank. "I Was a Baby Bulimic". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
  10. ↑ http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2013/03/17/GLAAD-hands-out-media-awards-for-24th-year/UPI-80631363558018/

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