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Revision as of 07:37, 23 December 2011
Fox Butterfield (born 1939 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania[1]) is an American journalist who spent much of his 30-year career[2] reporting for The New York Times.
Butterfield served as Times bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York. During that time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971.
Butterfield's books include China: Alive in the Bitter Sea (1982) and All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (1995)[3] about the child criminal Willie Bosket.
In 1990, he wrote an article on the election of the first African-American for the Harvard Law Review, future president of the United States Barack Obama.[4]
Personal
Butterfield is the son of Lyman Henry Butterfield, a historian and a director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Va.[5] The Canadian industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton was one of Fox Butterfield's grandfathers.
Butterfield received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude, master's degree, and doctorate of philosophy in Chinese history from Harvard University.
In 1988, Butterfield married Elizabeth Mehren, a reporter for The Los Angeles Times.[5] He has two children, Ethan and Sarah, from a previous marriage and a son, Sam, with Mehren.[6] Michael Moriarty played Fox Butterfield in the 1993 television movie Born Too Soon, based on Mehren's book about their daughter Emily, who was born prematurely in the late 1980s. Mehren was played by Pamela Reed. The couple live in Hingham, Massachusetts, about which Butterfield has sometimes written in The Times.
Criticism
Butterfield has been criticized for writing a sequence of articles [7] discussing the "paradox" of crime rates falling while the prison population grew due to tougher sentencing guidelines, without weighing the possibility that the tougher sentencing guidelines may have had a deterrent effect on crime, or that sequestering criminals prevented further criminal behavior on their part.
Bibliography
- China: Alive in the Bitter Sea.
- All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence.
Notes
- ^ The Prentice-Hall Reader, Chapter 7 (6th Edition) Accessed 23 April 2007.
- ^ The 1999 Bureau of Justice Assistance National Partnership Meeting: Working Together for Peace and Justice in the 21st Century.
- ^ NewsHour Online: David Gergen interviews author Fox Butterfield. Accessed 23 April 2007.
- ^ [1]
- ^ a b "Elizabeth Mehren and Fox Butterfield, Newspaper Reporters, Marry in Utah." The New York Times, 31 January 1988.
- ^ Interview with Elizabeth Mehren, author of Born Too Soon Accessed 23 April 2007.
- ^ "Punitive Damages; Crime Keeps On Falling, but Prisons Keep On Filling"; "Study Finds 2.6% Increase in U.S. Prison Population";"Despite Drop in Crime, an Increase in Inmates"