Ron Suskind
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind’s work straddles the complexity of human experience. Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism chronicles his youngest son’s 20-year struggle with autism. Suskind is the author of Confidence Men; The Way of the World; The One Percent Doctrine; The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O’Neill; and A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League. Suskind often appears on network television and has been a contributor for The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. Suskind was The Wall Street Journal’s senior national affairs reporter from 1993 until his departure in 2000, and he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a lecturer at Harvard Law School.