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James Surowiecki

James M. Surowiecki
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Surowiecki speaking in March 2014
Born April 30, 1967 (1967-04-30) (age 49)
Meriden, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Journalist

James Michael Surowiecki (/ˌsʊərˈwɪk/ SOOR-oh-WIK-ee; born April 30, 1967) is an American journalist. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page".

Surowiecki was born in Meriden, Connecticut and spent several childhood years in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico where he received a junior high school education from Southwestern Educational Society (SESO). On May 5, 1979, he won the Scripps-Howard Regional Puerto Rico Spelling Bee championship. He is a 1984 graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall and a 1988 alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar. Surowiecki pursued Ph.D. studies in American History on a Mellon Fellowship at Yale University before becoming a financial journalist. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is married to Slate culture editor Meghan O'Rourke.


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