Elisabeth Bumiller

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Elisabeth Bumiller (born May 15, 1956 in Aalborg , Denmark ) is an American journalist and author.

Life

Elisabeth Bumiller's mother is Danish, the father is American. In 1959 the family moved to the USA in Cincinnati , where they attended high school. She studied at Northwestern University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1977 to 1979, and has written for The Miami Herald since 1977 . In 1982 she began working as a community reporter for the Washington Post in Washington, DC . In 1983 she married the journalist Steven R. Weisman , who later worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics , they have two children. She went to New Delhi with Weisman and then to Tokyo and continued to write as a correspondent for the Post . Back in New York City , she became a local reporter for the New York Times in 1995 . At the beginning of September 2001, she moved to Washington as a domestic correspondent for the NYT at the White House , when the terrorist attacks on September 11th turned politics 180 degrees and most journalistic questions were now of a foreign policy nature. As a NYT correspondent, Bumiller was always close to President George W. Bush , both at his private residence at the Prairie Chapel Ranch and on trips to St. Petersburg and the Middle East . From 2007 she worked as a correspondent for the NYT at the Pentagon . She later became an editor in the Times Washington office , which she has headed since September 2015.

Bumiller wrote several books. From her work abroad, she wrote a book on family structures in India in 1989 and one on Japan in 1995 . She wrote a biography of Condoleezza Rice in 2007 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Condoleezza Rice: an American life: a biography . New York: Random House, 2007
  • with Jennifer & Laura Berman: For women only: a revolutionary guide to overcoming sexual dysfunction and reclaiming your sex life . New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2001
    • with Jennifer & Laura Berman: For women only: your sexuality and your body in a new light. This will make you more fun and fulfilling . From the American. by Gabriele Zelisko. Munich Goldmann 2002
  • The secrets of Mariko: a year in the life of a Japanese woman and her family . New York: Times Books, 1995
  • May you be the mother of a hundred sons: a journey among the women of India . New York: Random House, 1990
    • You shall have a hundred sons ...: Women's life in India . From the American. by Franziska Sperr . Munich: Knesebeck 1992

literature

  • Current biography yearbook .v. 69 (2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elisabeth Bumiller , Ask a reporter , at NYT, version in the Internet Archive of May 12, 2014
  2. ^ Dylan Byers: NY Times DC shakeup: Carolyn Ryan out, Elisabeth Bumiller in as bureau chief , Politico, September 8, 2015, accessed November 22, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bumiller, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Aalborg , Denmark