Glenn Frankel worked for twenty-seven years for the Washington Post, as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor of the Washington Post Magazine. As Jerusalem bureau chief, he won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for “sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East.” His first book, Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel, won the National Jewish Book Award. His second, Rivonia’s Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa was a finalist for South Africa’s prestigious Alan Paton Award. Frankel has been an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow and a visiting professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. He is currently the Director of the School of Journalism and holds the G. B. Dealey Regents Professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.