Alex Beam
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Alex Beam (born 1954 [1]) is an American writer and journalist, currently a columnist for The Boston Globe.
Beam grew up in Washington, D.C.,[2] as his father Jacob D. Beam was a diplomat. Beam graduated from Yale University [3] in 1975. [4]
Beam worked at Newsweek and BusinessWeek,[5] where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief,[2] before joining the Boston Globe. His twice-weekly column for the Globe has appeared since 1987. He was a John Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1996-1997.[2]
In addition to his journalistic work, Beam is the author of two novels set in Russia, Fellow Travelers (1987) and The Americans Are Coming! (1991), both published by St. Martin's Press. He has also published a work of non-fiction, exploring the history of McLean Hospital. The book, titled Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital, was published in January 2002.
[edit] References
- ^ Staff report (July 2000). Who's Who. Stanford Magazine
- ^ a b c Birnbaum, Robert. "Interview: Alex Beam." Identitytheory.com. URL accessed March 12, 2007.
- ^ Cohn, Bob (September 1997). Digging into the Past. Stanford Magazine
- ^ Staff report (February 2002). In Print. Yale Alumni Magazine
- ^ PBS American Experience Forum Participants. PBS. URL accessed March 12, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Alex Beam columns via Boston Globe
