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. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... Nickname: The Red Rose City Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Lancaster Founded 1730 Incorporated March 10, 1818  - Mayor Rick Gray (D) Area    - City  7. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

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. Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành Chí Minh) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...   (Chinese:  ; Pinyin: BÄ›ijÄ«ng; IPA: ), a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Pentagon Papers are a seven-thousand-page top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War from 1945 to 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].

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.^[4] The Canadian industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton was one of Fox Butterfield's grandfathers. Nickname: The Burg Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ... Eaton on the cover of Time, 1930 Cyrus Stephen Eaton (December 27, 1883–May 9, 1979) was a Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist. ...

Butterfield received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude, master's degree, and doctor of philosophy in Chinese history from Harvard University. Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1636,[2] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning still operating in the United States. ...

In 1988, Butterfield married Elizabeth Mehren, a reporter for The Los Angeles Times^[4]. He has two children, Ethan and Emily, from a previous marriage and a son, Sam, with Mehren^[5]. The Los Angeles Times (also L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ...

Trivia

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 1980's. Mehren was played by Pamela Reed. Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is a Tony-winning and Emmy-winning American actor. ... Pamela Reed (born April 2, 1949 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American actress. ...

Bibliography

• China: Alive in the Bitter Sea.
• All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence.

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