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Thomas Loren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist and author. He has won the Pulitzer Prize three times and currently writes a weekly column for ''The New York Times''. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues. ==Background== Friedman was born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on July 20, 1953, to Margaret Blanche (Phillips) and Harold Abe Friedman.〔https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VC2S-FF3〕 Harold, who was vice president of a ball bearing company, United Bearing, died of a heart attack in 1973, when Tom was nineteen years old. Margaret, who served in the United States Navy during World War II and studied home economics at the University of Wisconsin, was a homemaker and a part-time bookkeeper. She was also a Senior Life Master duplicate bridge player, and died in 2008. Friedman has two older sisters, Shelly and Jane. From an early age, Friedman, whose father often brought him to the golf course for a round after work, wanted to be a professional golfer. He played a lot of sports, and became serious about tennis and golf. He caddied at a local country club and in 1970 caddied for professional golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez when the US Open came to town. Friedman is Jewish. He attended Hebrew school five days a week until his Bar Mitzvah,〔''From Beirut to Jerusalem''. 1990, page 4〕 then St. Louis Park High School, where he wrote articles for his school's newspaper.〔(''The Echo'' ) 〕 He became enamored of Israel after a visit there in December 1968, and he spent all three of his high school summers living on Kibbutz HaHotrim, near Haifa.〔''From Beirut to Jerusalem''. 1990, page 5〕 He has characterized his high school years as "one big celebration of Israel's victory in the Six-Day War."〔 Friedman studied at the University of Minnesota for two years, but later transferred to Brandeis University and graduated ''summa cum laude'' in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies. Friedman later taught a class in economics at Brandeis in 2006, and was a commencement speaker there in 2007. After graduating from Brandeis, he attended St Antony's College at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, earning an M.Phil. in Middle Eastern studies. Friedman's wife, Ann (née Bucksbaum), is a graduate of Stanford University and the London School of Economics. She is the daughter of real estate developer Matthew Bucksbaum.〔(Forbes: "Thomas Friedman is On Top of the World" by Garrett M. Graff ) July 1, 2006〕 They were married in London on Thanksgiving Day 1978 and live in Bethesda, Maryland in a 1022-square meter (11,000-sq. ft.) home. The couple has two daughters, Orly (b. 1985) and Natalie (b. 1988). 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「Thomas Friedman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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