Barry Bearak
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| Barry Bearak | |
|---|---|
| Gender | male |
| Born | August 31, 1949 |
| Birth place | Chicago, Illinois |
| Age | 57 |
| Circumstances | |
| Occupation | journalist, instructor in journalism |
| Marital status | married |
| Spouse | Celia W. Dugger |
| Children | two sons |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times |
Barry Bearak — born August 31, 1949, in Chicago — is an American journalist and teacher of journalism. Along with his wife Celia W. Dugger — also a New York Times correspondent — Bearak served as co-bureau chief of the Times 's South Asia bureau in New Delhi from 1998 to 2002.
Bearak won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his penetrating accounts of poverty and war in Afghanistan.
He is currently a staff writer for The New York Times and a visiting professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.
Bearak earned a B.A. from Knox College and an M.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois.
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Bearak and Dugger and their two sons currently live in Westchester County, New York.
