Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism; they won for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement as New York Times correspondents. Kristof, now an op-ed columnist for The Times, won a second Pulitzer for columns about the Darfur genocide. At The Times, WuDunn worked as a business editor and strategic planning executive. She now runs Full Sky Partners, which advises young companies, including those contributing social value.
Kristof grew up on a sheep and cherry farm near Yamhill, Oregon, graduated from Harvard College and then studied law at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. WuDunn grew up in New York City, graduated from Cornell University and then studied public policy at Princeton and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. They have three children and live near New York City, while trying to manage the production of cider apples and pinot grapes on the farm in Oregon.