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Bringing
the headlines to life for his audiences, George F. Will
provides penetrating and trenchant commentary on the current
American political and economic scene.
George
Will's newspaper column has been syndicated by The
Washington Post since 1974.
Today it appears twice weekly in just under 500
newspapers in the
United States
and in
Europe
. In 1976,
he became a regular contributing editor of Newsweek
magazine, for which he provides a bimonthly back-page essay.
In 1977 he won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in his
newspaper columns.
Altogether
seven collections of Mr. Will's Newsweek and Washington Post
columns have been published, the most recent being With
A Happy Eye But…: America and the World, 1997-2002 (2002). Mr. Will has also
published three books on political theory, Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does
(1983), The New Season: A Spectator's Guide
to the 1988 Election (1987)
and Restoration:
Congress, Term Limits and The Recovery of
Deliberative
Democracy (1992).
In 1990, Mr. Will published Men
At Work: The Craft of Baseball,
which topped The
New York Times bestseller
list for two months. In
1998, Scribner published Bunts:
Curt Flood,
Camden
Yards, Pete Rose and Other Reflections on Baseball,
a best-selling collection of new and previously published
writings by Mr. Will on baseball.
In July 2000, Mr. Will was a member of Major League
Baseball's Blue Ribbon Panel, examining baseball economics.
In
1981, Mr. Will became a founding panel member on ABC
television’s This Week.
Mr.
Will was born in
Champaign
,
Illinois
, educated at
Trinity
College
in
Hartford
,
Connecticut
,
Oxford
University
and
Princeton
University
, where he earned his Ph.D.
He has taught political philosophy at
Michigan
State
University
, the
University
of
Toronto
and
Harvard
University
. Mr. Will served
as a staff member in the United States Senate from 1970 to
1972. From 1973
through 1976, he was the
Washington
editor of National Review magazine.
Today, Mr. Will lives and works in the
Washington
,
D.C.
area.
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