Ron Suskind

Ron Suskind
Suskind in 2012 in Washington, D.C.
Born	Ronald Steven Suskind November 20, 1959 (1959-11-20) (age 57) Kingston, New York
Education	University of Virginia, Columbia School of Journalism
Occupation	Journalist, Author
Agent	The Wylie Agency
Notable credit(s)	New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Esquire
Spouse(s)	Cornelia Anne Kennedy (m. 1988)
Children	Walter, Owen

Ronald Steven "Ron" Suskind (born November 20, 1959) is an American journalist and author. He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000, where he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing four articles that became the starting point for his first book, A Hope in the Unseen. His other books include The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World, Confidence Men, and his memoir Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism. Suskind has written about the George W. Bush Administration, the Barack Obama Administration, and related issues of the United States' use of power.

Suskind was born in Kingston, New York, to a Jewish family. He is the son of Shirley Berney and Walter B. Suskind, and a second cousin of producer David Susskind. He grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and attended the University of Virginia. In 1983 he received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

In 1990, Suskind went to the Wall Street Journal, and became senior national affairs reporter in 1993. In 1995, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for two articles on Cedric Jennings, a student at inner-city Ballou High School in Washington, D.C. who wanted to attend MIT. Suskind left the Journal in 2000.