Frank Bruni
| Frank Bruni | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Frank Anthony Bruni October 31, 1964 White Plains, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Columbia University |
| Occupation | Op-cd columnist, New York Times; former chief restaurant critic |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times |
Frank Anthony Bruni (born October 31, 1964) is an American journalist and long-time writer for New York Times. In June 2011, he was named an op-ed columnist for the newspaper, its first openly gay one. One of his many previous posts for the newspaper was as its chief restaurant critic, from 2004-2009. He is the author of three bestselling books: Born Round, a memoir about his family's love of food and his own struggles with overeating; Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be, about the college admissions mania; and Ambling Into History, about George W. Bush.
Bruni graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 with a B.A. in English. He was a Morehead Scholar and wrote for the student paper, The Daily Tar Heel. Bruni graduated second in his class with a master of science degree in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he also won a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
Straight out of Columbia, Bruni joined the staff of the New York Post and then moved on to the Detroit Free Press, where he did a wide range of beats, including a stint covering the Persian Gulf War. He spent more than a year as the movie critic and also wrote extensively about gay issues and AIDS. In 1993, he was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for his profile of a convicted child molester. In 1995, Bruni took a job with The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter and often wrote for The Times's Sunday magazine 'and' for Sunday Arts. In 1998, he was assigned to the Washington, D.C., bureau, where he covered Capitol Hill and Congress, before being sent on the campaign trail to follow then-Texas Governor George W. Bush. He then covered the White House for the first eight months of the Bush administration and served as the Washington-based staff writer for Sunday magazine. In July 2002, he was promoted to the Rome bureau chief. Two years later, he became The Times's restaurant critic. After five years in that position, he returned briefly to the magazine before becoming an op-ed columnist.
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