Milton Viorst is an American

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 journalist

Journalist

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He studied history at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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. In 1951, he was a Fulbright scholar in France. He returned and attended Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and Columbia University

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, where he graduated in 1956 in journalism.

From 1956 to 1993, Viorst often contributed in various ways to publications such as The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, Foreign Affairs

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, Harper's Magazine

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, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine

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, The Washington Post

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, and the Wall Street Journal. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. His writing landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents

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In the early 1980s, he grew interested in Middle East

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ern policy and became a specialist in this field. He is the author of six books on the subject, including In the Shadow of The Prophet.

Milton Viorst won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1979 to research and write about Zionist and Islamic ideas and the mideast crisis.

He is married to the children's author Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst is an American author, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is perhaps best known for her children's literature, such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barney and the Alexander series of short picture books.In 1968, Viorst signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax...

, and has three grown sons, two of them lawyers.

External links

• Milton Viorst biography via Alliance Française USA
• Milton Viorst on ‘The Israel Lobby’