Richard Ben Cramer is an American-Jewish journalist and writer. Born on June 14, 1950, he was raised in Rochester, NY and attended Johns Hopkins University earning a bachelor's degree in the Liberal Arts. Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. He later went on to earn a masters degree at Columbia University. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Cramer has worked as a journalist at several well known publications such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, Esquire Magazine, and Rolling Stone. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1979 for reports from the Middle East. This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs including United Nations correspondence Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. His work as a political reporter culminated in "What It Takes" about the 1988 Presidential election which is considered to be the seminal piece on presidential electoral politics. His next book, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life was a New York Times bestseller in 2000. He is an avid New York Yankees fan and lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with his daughter. The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. He is working on a new biography on baseball star Alex Rodriguez. Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez (born July 27 1975 in New York New York) commonly nicknamed A-Rod, is an American Third baseman for the
Books Authored
- Ted Williams: The Seasons of the Kid]] (1991)
- Bob Dole (1994)
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House (1998)
- Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life (2000)
- What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now? A Remembrance (2002)
- How Israel Lost: the four questions (2004)
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