Elisabeth Bumiller

Elisabeth Bumiller (born May 15, 1956) is an American author and journalist who is the Washington bureau chief for the New York Times.

Bumiller was born in Aalborg, Denmark, to a Danish mother and American father. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when she was three years old. Bumiller attended Walnut Hills High School, where she reported for the school newspaper, the Walnut Hills Chatterbox. She graduated in 1974.

Bumiller then attended Northwestern University as an undergraduate in the Medill School of Journalism, graduating in 1977. She wrote for the Daily Northwestern. She received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979.

Bumiller's began her career at the Miami Herald. Her first journalism job in Washington was as a party reporter for the Washington Post Style section, where she covered Washington society. In this role, Bumiller followed First Lady Nancy Reagan to the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer. In fall 1979, Bumiller met Steven R. Weisman, then the White House correspondent for the New York Times, and the two married in 1983.

In 1985, after Weisman took up the post of New Delhi bureau chief for the Times, Bumiller moved to India and continued to write for the Style section of the Post. She also wrote her first book, May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons (Ballantine, 1991), described as "examination of daily life for women in India." In 1989, when Weisman became Tokyo bureau chief for the Times, the couple moved again to Japan, where Bumiller continued to work for the Post and also began work on a second book, The Secrets of Mariko (Vintage, 1996). Bumiller also gave birth to the couple's first child in Japan, a daughter.

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