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Kevin Sullivan | |
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| Born | (1959-11-05)November 5, 1959 (age 66) |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of New Hampshire |
| Genre | non-fiction |
Kevin Sullivan (born November 5, 1959) is an American journalist and author who is an associate editor atThe Washington Post. Sullivan was aPost foreign correspondent for 14 years, working with his wife,Mary Jordan, as the newspaper's co-bureau chiefs inTokyo,Mexico City andLondon. Sullivan is known for parachuting into faraway places, from Congo to Burma to Baghdad. He went to Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and to Saudi Arabia when King Abdullah died, and again after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. He has also worked as thePost's chief foreign correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and Features Editor.
Sullivan and Jordan wrote three books together.Trump on Trial chronicled the Trump impeachment, andHope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland was written with kidnapping survivors with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. Sullivan and Jordan have also been featured authors at the Library of CongressNational Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Sullivan was raised inBrunswick, Maine and graduated from theUniversity of New Hampshire in 1981. After working forThe Providence Journal inRhode Island and theGloucester Daily Times inMassachusetts, Sullivan joined thePost in 1991.[1]
Sullivan spent a year studying Japanese language and East Asian affairs atGeorgetown University in 1994–95, and he studied Spanish and Latin American affairs as aJohn S. Knight Fellow atStanford University from 1999 to 2000.[2]
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Sullivan and Jordan wroteThe Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. The book was given theChristopher Award in 2006.[3]
They also co-authored with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus,two of the women kidnapped and held for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro inCleveland—ofHope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, published by Viking in April 2015. Sullivan also contributed a chapter toTrump 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 toNine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America, edited by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books in 2018. Sullivan and Jordan are the authors ofTrump 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.[4]
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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 fourPost photographers, for a series of stories on difficulties facing women around the world.
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, withPost colleagueKeith Richburg, also won the 1998George Polk Award for their reporting on the1997 Asian financial crisis. Sullivan and Jordan have also won awards from theOverseas Press Club of America and theSociety of Professional Journalists.
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