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| '''Kevin Sullivan''' (born November 5, 1959) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, best-selling author and senior correspondent at '']''. | |||
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| Sullivan and Jordan have written extensively about former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, see "" and "." | |||
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| ==Early life and career== | ==Early life and career== | ||
| Sullivan was raised in ] and graduated from the ] in 1981. |
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| After working for the ] in ] and ] in ], Sullivan joined the ''Post'' in 1991. At the ''Post'', Sullivan has reported on six continents from more than 80 countries, including Ukraine, Russia, ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ]. In 2022, he was the Post’s Ukraine editor, overseeing coverage of the first six months of Russia’s full-scale invasion. In Kyiv, he . | |||
| Sullivan spent a year studying Japanese language and East Asian affairs at ] in 1994–95, and he studied Spanish and Latin American affairs as a ] Fellow at ] from 1999 to 2000.<ref>Stanford University Knight Fellowships. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720052259/http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/2000/index.html |date=2011-07-20 }}.</ref> | Sullivan spent a year studying Japanese language and East Asian affairs at ] in 1994–95, and he studied Spanish and Latin American affairs as a ] Fellow at ] from 1999 to 2000.<ref>Stanford University Knight Fellowships. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720052259/http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/2000/index.html |date=2011-07-20 }}.</ref> | ||
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Kevin Sullivan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, best-selling author and associate editor at The Washington Post.
| Kevin Sullivan | |
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| Born | (1959-11-05) November 5, 1959 (age 65) |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of New Hampshire |
| Genre | non-fiction |
Sullivan was a Post foreign correspondent for 14 years, working with his wife, Washington Post journalist Mary Jordan, as the newspaper's co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City and London. Sullivan is well known for parachuting into faraway places, including Congo, Burma, Iraq and Afghanistan shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He has traveled often to Saudi Arabia since the 1980s, including after King Abdullah’s death in 2015 and after the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. He has also served as the Post's chief foreign correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and Features Editor.
Sullivan and Jordan have written three books together. Their most recent, Trump’s Trials, chronicled the two Trump impeachments (It was originally published in hardcover as Trump on Trial). Their book Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus) was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
Sullivan and Jordan have written extensively about former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, see "The Un-Celebrity President" and "Inseparable."
Sullivan is a frequent commentator on television and radio. He and Jordan have also been featured authors at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Early life and career
Sullivan was raised in Brunswick, Maine and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1981. He is a nephew of the Rev. Francis A. Sullivan, a noted Jesuit theologian. He is the brother of Dr. Thomas Sullivan, a pediatric neuropsychologist.
After working for the Gloucester Daily Times in Massachusetts and The Providence Journal in Rhode Island, Sullivan joined the Post in 1991. At the Post, Sullivan has reported on six continents from more than 80 countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Cuba, Burma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone and Haiti. In 2022, he was the Post’s Ukraine editor, overseeing coverage of the first six months of Russia’s full-scale invasion. In Kyiv, he wrote about the war’s impact on Ukrainian oligarchs.
Sullivan spent a year studying Japanese language and East Asian affairs at Georgetown University in 1994–95, and he studied Spanish and Latin American affairs as a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University from 1999 to 2000.
Career recognition and awards
Sullivan and Jordan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series of stories about the Mexican criminal justice system. They were also finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, along with four Post photographers, for a series of stories on difficulties facing women around the world. The Pulitzer citation credited the series for "its sensitive examination of how females in the developing world are often oppressed from birth to death, a reporting project marked by indelible portraits of women and girls and enhanced by multimedia presentations."
Sullivan was also part of a Post team that was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Reporting from Saudi Arabia, Sullivan contributed to what the Pulitzer board called the Post's “commanding and courageous” coverage of the October 2018 murder of Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Sullivan and Jordan, with Post colleague Keith Richburg, also won the 1998 George Polk Award for their reporting on the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. Sullivan and Jordan have also won several other journalism awards, including those from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Sullivan and Jordan are the authors of the critically acclaimed “Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath,” published by Scribner in August 2020. The book, with reporting contributions from Washington Post colleagues, was given a “starred” review by Kirkus, which said it “sets a standard for political storytelling with impeccable research and lively writing.” It was reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review.
Sullivan and Jordan also wrote The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail . The book was given the Christopher Award in 2006.
They were also the authors—together with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the women kidnapped and held for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro in Cleveland—of Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, published by Viking in April 2015. The book reached the no. 1 position on The New York Times bestseller list on May 17, 2015.
Sullivan also contributed a chapter to Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, a Washington Post biography of then-candidate Donald Trump published by Scribner in 2016.
Sullivan and Jordan contributed a chapter to Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America, edited by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books in 2018.
Works
Bibliography
- Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (5 May 2005). The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1594200564
- Amanda Berry; Gina DeJesus; Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (27 April 2015). Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland. Viking Press. ISBN 978-0698178953
- Kevin Sullivan; Mary Jordan (25 August 2020). Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath. Scribner. ISBN 978-1-9821-5299-4.
Selected works from 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories
- In Mexico Hinterland, Life Beyond the Law
- Torture, A Ghost in Mexico's Closet
- Disparate Justice Imprisons Mexico's Poor
- Kidnapping is Growth Industry in Mexico
Selected works from 2009 Pulitzer Prize-finalist series on the difficulties facing women
- A Mother's Final Look at Life
- In Sierra Leone, Every Pregnancy Is a 'Chance of Dying'
- Africa's Last and Leas
- In Africa, One Family's Struggle With the Global Food Crisis
Selected works from 2019 Pulitzer Prize-finalist series on the Jamal Khashoggi murder
Other selected works
- The troubled and volatile life of Orlando mass murderer Omar Mateen
- Police call him an ISIS recruiter. He says he's just an outspoken preacher.
- Life in the "Islamic State"
- The Americans Are Coming!
- A rare look inside a Saudi prison that showers terrorists with perks
- Flogging case in Saudi Arabia is just one sign of a new crackdown on rights activists
- 18 stories from Syrian Exodus
- A Body and Spirit Broken by the Taliban
- A Hymn to Yesterday: Paul McCartney Premieres His Choral Work, an Elegy for Linda
- Saudi Arabia struggles to employ its most-educated women
- Two years after Libya's revolution, government struggles to control hundreds of armed militias
- In Iraq, scenes of hope and fear seven months after U.S. troops’ departure
- Nine portraits of Iraq without America
- Novel Faiths Find Followers Among Russia's Disillusioned
- S. Korea's Middle Class Hides Its Despair
- Death of 3 Salesmen - Partners in Suicide
- The un-Celebrity President
- Lulu’s Choice
- Fear, Hope and Deportations
- Voices from Standing Rock
- ‘Evil, evil, evil as can be’: Emotional testimony as Dylann Roof trial begins
- Fidel Castro, revolutionary leader who remade Cuba as a socialist state, dies at 90
- For a President Trump, global real estate deals present unprecedented gray areas
Appearances and interviews
- Shoulder to Shoulder: The Art and Chaos of Collaboration (Poynter Institute, 2005)
- The Cleveland kidnapping: 'He took everything away' (Washington Post TV, 2015)
- Hope: Survival in Cleveland: 2015 National Book Festival (Library of Congress, 2015)
References
- Stanford University Knight Fellowships. "Knight Fellowship Class of 2000" Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine.
