John Darnton
| John Darnton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 20, 1941 New York City |
| Occupation | Journalist and author |
| Notable credit(s) | New York Times; Neanderthal, The Experiment, Mind Catcher, The Darwin Conspiracy (novels) |
| Spouse(s) | Nina Darnton |
| Children | Kyra Grann and Liza (daughters), Jamie (son) |
| Parent(s) | Byron Darnton and Eleanor Choate Darnton |
| Relatives |
Robert Darnton (brother) David Grann (son-in-law) |
John Darnton (born November 20, 1941 in New York City) is an American journalist who wrote for the New York Times. He is a two-time winner of the Polk Award, of which he is now the curator, and the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He also moonlights as a novelist who writes scientific and medical thrillers.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Darnton joined the New York Times as a copyboy in 1966. Two years later he became a reporter and for the next eight years he worked in and around New York City, including stints as the Connecticut correspondent during the Black Panther trials in New Haven, and as a City Hall reporter in the Lindsay and Beame administrations.
In 1976 he went abroad as a foreign correspondent, first covering Africa out of Lagos, Nigeria, and then, when the military government there expelled him in 1977, out of Nairobi, Kenya. He covered protests in South Africa, liberation movements in Rhodesia, guerrilla fighting in Ethiopia, Somalia, Zaire, and the fall of Idi Amin in Uganda. His work in Africa earned him the George Polk Award in 1978.
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