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Alex Beam (born 1954〔Staff report (July 2000). (Who's Who. ) ''Stanford Magazine''〕) is an American writer and journalist. He is also a columnist for ''The Boston Globe''. He has worked at ''Newsweek'' and ''BusinessWeek'', where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief,〔 before joining the ''Boston Globe''. His columns for the ''Globe'' has appeared since 1987. He was a John Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1996–1997.〔 Mr. Beam is the author of the 2014 book ''American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church''. ==Early life== Beam grew up in Washington, D.C.,〔(Birnbaum, Robert. "Interview:Alex Beam." )''Identitytheory.com''.URL accessed March 12, 2007.〕 as his father Jacob D. Beam was a diplomat. Beam attended Phillips Exeter Academy,〔Boston Globe Article (September 6, 2008 (School Wasn't Prepped for this Scandal. )''Boston Globe''〕 where he was Foreign Correspondent for the twice-weekly school newspaper, ''The Exonian'', and graduated from Yale University 〔Cohn, Bob (September 1997). (Digging into the Past. ) ''Stanford Magazine''〕 in 1975.〔Staff report (February 2002). (In Print. ) ''Yale Alumni Magazine''〕 He helped establish a small weekly newspaper in Ludlow, Vermont, ''The Black River Tribune.'' Beam worked at ''Newsweek'' and ''BusinessWeek'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PBS American Experience Forum Participants )〕 where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief,〔 before joining the ''Boston Globe''. His twice-weekly column for the ''Globe'' has appeared since 1987. He was a John Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1996–1997.〔 In addition to his journalistic work, Beam is the author of two novels set in Russia, ''Fellow Travelers'' (1987) and ''The Americans Are Coming!'' (1991), both published by St. Martin's Press. He has also published three works of non-fiction. ''Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital'', which explored the history of McLean Hospital, was published in January 2002. His second non-fiction book, about the Great Books movement, ''A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books'', was published in 2008. Both were named Notable Books in the annual list compiled by the New York Times Book Review. ''American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church'' was published in 2014. For a time Beam wrote a weekly blog about squash, the sport, for ''Vanity Fairs online edition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alex Beam )〕 His son Christopher Beam is a political blogger for ''Slate''. He is a churchgoer.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Beam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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