Butterfield, Fox

Fox Butterfield is the author of "China: Alive in the Bitter Sea," which won the National Book Award. He was a mamember of the "New York Times "reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its publication of the Pentagon Papers, and has served as a correspondant for the newspaper in Boston, Washington, DC, New York, South Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, and China--where he opened the Beijing bureau in 1979. He is currently a national correspondant for the Times, writing about crime and violence. He lives near Boston with his family.

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