Nichols Kristof & Cheryl WuDunn

 

The People Behind Half the Sky

Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are the first husband and wife team to win a Pulitzer Prize together for journalism.

They shared the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for their coverage in the New York Times of the Tiananmen democracy movement in China and its bloody supression.

They have also won various other journalism prizes as longtime Asia correspondents for the Times, and in 1994, they published theiir best-selling book, "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power."

Nicholas Kristof attended Harvard College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and earning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he studied law and graduated with first-class honors. He has served as the Times bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo.

Sheryl WuDunn is a third-generation Chinese-American who grew up in New York City and studied intellectual history at Cornell University.

She has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Masters degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Ms. WuDunn has served as a foreign correspondent in Beijing and Tokyo.

Kristof and WuDunn live near New York City with their three children.