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Fox Butterfield

Fox Butterfield (born 8 July 1939) is an American journalist who spent much of his 30-year career reporting for ''The New York Times''.

Butterfield served as ''Times'' bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York City. During that time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize as a member of ''The New York Times'' team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971 and won a 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction for ''China: Alive in the Bitter Sea'', an account of his experience as the first ''Times'' reporter allowed in China after the revolution. He also wrote ''All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence'' (1995) about the child criminal Willie Bosket.

In 1990, Butterfield wrote an article on the first African-American to be elected president of the ''Harvard Law Review'', future president of the United States Barack Obama. Provided by Wikipedia