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Fox Butterfield was born on 8 July, 1939 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is an American journalist. Discover Fox Butterfield's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, author
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 8 July, 1939
Birthday 8 July
Birthplace Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Nationality United States

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His wife is Elizabeth Mehren (1988 - present) ( 2 children)

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1939

Fox Butterfield (born 8 July 1939) is an American journalist who spent much of his 30-year career reporting for The New York Times.

Butterfield served as Times bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York City.

1957

Butterfield graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1957.

He received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude and master's degree from Harvard University.

1971

During that time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971 and won a 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction for China: Alive in the Bitter Sea, an account of his experience as the first Times reporter allowed in China after the revolution.

1979

In 1979 he was granted an honorary doctorate from the University of Puget Sound.

1988

In 1988, Butterfield married Elizabeth Mehren, a reporter for The Los Angeles Times.

He has two children, Ethan and Sarah, from a previous marriage.

He and Mehren had a daughter, Emily (26 Mar 1988-17 May 1988), and a son, Sam (1990–2013).

1990

In 1990, Butterfield wrote an article on the first African-American to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review, future president of the United States Barack Obama.

Butterfield was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the son of Lyman Henry Butterfield, a historian and a director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia.

The Canadian industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton was one of his grandfathers.

His father named him "Fox" after the English Parliamentary leader, Charles James Fox, who sided with the colonists.

1993

Michael Moriarty played Fox Butterfield in the 1993 television movie Born Too Soon, based on Mehren's book about their daughter Emily, who was born prematurely in the late 1980s and lived only six weeks.

Mehren was played by Pamela Reed.

The couple live in Hingham, Massachusetts, about which Butterfield has sometimes written in The Times.

"The Butterfield Effect" is a term coined by James Taranto in his online editorial column for The Wall Street Journal called Best of the Web Today, typically bringing up a headline, "Fox Butterfield, Is That You?"

later "Fox Butterfield, Call Your Office".

Taranto coined the term after reading Butterfield's articles discussing the "paradox" of crime rates falling while the prison population grew due to tougher sentencing guidelines.

1994

Butterfield quoted F.B.I. statistics that from 1994 to 2003 there was a 16 percent drop in arrests for violent crime, including a 36 percent decrease in arrests for murder and a 25 percent decrease in arrests for robbery, but the tough new sentencing laws led to a growth in inmates being sent to prison.

Taranto and a Jewish World Review columnist, along with the conservative Weekly Standard, felt that Butterfield should have considered that the tougher sentencing guidelines might have reduced crime by causing more criminals to be in jail.

1995

He also wrote All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (1995) about the child criminal Willie Bosket.