Daniel kurtzman biography
Daniel Kurtzman chronicles the absurdities of politics as editor of , the popular site that is part of The New York Times Company’s network..
Daniel Kurtzman is a former Washington correspondent-turned political satirist who chronicles the absurdities of politics as a freelance writer.
Dan Kurzman
American journalist and writer
Daniel Halperin Kurzman (27 March 1922, in San Francisco – 12 December 2010, in Manhattan),[1] was an American journalist and writer of military history books.[2] He studied at the University of California in Berkeley, served in the U.S.
Army from 1943 to 1946, and completed his studies at Berkeley with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science.[3] At the end of his life, Dan Kurzman lived in North Bergen (New Jersey) with his wife, Florence.
He died December 12, 2010, at the age of 88, in Manhattan. (His wife had died the previous year.)[4]
Career
In the early 1950s, Kurzman worked in Europe and in Israel for American newspapers and news agencies, thereafter becoming correspondent of the NBC News in Jerusalem.
In 1960, he published his first political book, a biography of the Japanese Prime Minister, Nobusuke Kishi.[5] In the 1960s, Kurzman worked as a foreign policy correspondent
