Nicholas Kristof has been a columnist for The New York Times since 2001. He grew up on a farm in Oregon, graduated from Harvard, studied law at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and then studied Arabic in Cairo. He was a long-time foreign correspondent for The New York Times and speaks Chinese, Japanese and other languages. Kristof has won two Pulitzer prizes, one for reporting on China and the other for columns on Darfur, along with many humanitarian awards such as the Anne Frank Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. With his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, he has written five best-selling books, most recently “Tightrope.