Sam Bourne
Biography
Sam Bourne
Sam Bourne is the
literary pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning British
journalist and broadcaster. He has written a weekly column for
The Guardian since 1997, having previously served as the
paper's Washington correspondent. His work has also appeared in
The New York Times, The New York Review of Books,
the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post,
Newsweek, The New Republic, and The Jewish
Chronicle, and he presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary-history
series The Long View.
For nearly two decades he has covered the Middle East conflict, and
in 2002 he chaired a three-day dialogue between Israelis and
Palestinians, which was sponsored by The Guardian. The
participants in that meeting went on to broker the 2003 Geneva
Accord.
Freedland is the author of the New York Times bestselling
novel THE RIGHTEOUS
MEN, also a number-one bestseller in the UK, which has been
translated into thirty-one languages, and the nonfiction works
JACOB'S GIFT and BRING HOME THE REVOLUTION. He lives in London with
his wife and two children.
Sam Bourne
