
A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller About the Author Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times, where he serves as the foreign affairs columnist. He is the author of three previous books, all of them From Beirut to Jerusalem, winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction; The Lexus and the Olive Understanding Globalization; and Longitudes and Exploring the World After September 11. In 2005 The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.