Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Kristof earns my respect as a journalist who reports with his feet, not just his keyboard. A Rhodes Scholar raised in rural Oregon and educated at Harvard, he could have settled into comfortable commentary, but instead he won two Pulitzers and kept traveling to the places most readers would rather not think about. What I value is his persistent attention to poverty, human rights, and overlooked victims, shining a New York Times column on subjects that rarely sell. Choosing the unglamorous story again and again takes conviction, and that kind of earnest moral energy is exactly what I find compelling.

Name (English)

Nicholas Kristof

Name (Japanese)

ニコラス・クリストフ

Reading

にこらす・くりすとふ

Born

April 27, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Boar

Origin

Yamhill, Oregon, United States

Occupation

writer / journalist / blogger / foreign correspondent / author

High school

Yamhill Carlton High School

University

Harvard College

Awards & achievements

• 1989 George Polk Award
• James Parks Morton Interfaith Award
• 2005 Michael Kelly Award
• 1990 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
• 1981 Rhodes Scholarship
• 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

• Official sitehttps://www.nytimes.com/column/nicholas-kristof
• Xhttps://x.com/NickKristof
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Kristof
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q972107

Tags

• Oregon
• writer
• journalist
• blogger

Last updated

2026-06-20

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