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'''Kevin Sullivan''' (born November 5, 1959) is an American journalist and author who is an associate editor at ''[[The Washington Post]]''. Sullivan was a ''Post'' foreign correspondent for 14 years, working with his wife, [[Mary Jordan (journalist)|Mary Jordan]], as the newspaper's co-bureau chiefs in [[Tokyo]], [[Mexico City]] and [[London]]. Sullivan is known for parachuting into faraway places, from Congo to Burma to Baghdad. He went to Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and to Saudi Arabia when King Abdullah died, and again after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. He has also worked as the ''Post''<nowiki/>'s chief foreign correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and Features Editor.
'''Kevin Sullivan''' (born November 5, 1959) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, best-selling author and senior correspondent at ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>''The Washington Post''. [https://live.washingtonpost.com/ask-the-post:-the-revamped-washington-post.html Discussions: Live Q&A's]. January 24, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/International-Reporting The Pulitzer Prizes: International Reporting]. Last updated in 2010.</ref>


Sullivan and Jordan wrote three books together. ''Trump on Trial'' chronicled the Trump impeachment, and ''Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland'' was written with kidnapping survivors with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. Sullivan and Jordan have also been featured authors at the Library of Congress [[National Book Festival]] in Washington, D.C.
Sullivan and his wife, ''Post'' journalist [[Mary Jordan (journalist)|Mary Jordan]], have written two books together, including ''The'' ''New York Times'' No. 1 Bestseller'', Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland'' (with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Hope-A-Memoir-Survival-Cleveland-ebook/dp/B00OYXWLCE|title=Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland|last=Berry|first=Amanda|last2=DeJesus|first2=Gina|last3=Jordan|first3=Mary|last4=Sullivan|first4=Kevin|date=2015-04-27|publisher=Penguin Books|edition=Reprint|language=English}}</ref>


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==Early life and education==
Sullivan was a ''Post'' foreign correspondent for 14 years, working with Jordan as the newspaper's co-bureau chiefs in [[Tokyo]] from 1995 to 1999, [[Mexico City]] from 2000 to 2005, and [[London]] from 2005 to 2009.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/kevin-sullivan|title=Kevin Sullivan|website=Washington Post|access-date=2016-07-05}}</ref> He has also served as the ''Post''<nowiki/>'s chief foreign correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and Features Editor.<ref name=":0" />
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Sullivan was raised in [[Brunswick, Maine]] and graduated from the [[University of New Hampshire]] in 1981. After working for ''[[The Providence Journal]]'' in [[Rhode Island]] and the ''[[Gloucester Daily Times]]'' in [[Massachusetts]], Sullivan joined the ''Post'' in 1991.<ref name="projects.washingtonpost.com">''The Washington Post'' [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/kevin+sullivan/ Washington Post National: Staff - Kevin Sullivan].</ref>


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Sullivan spent a year studying Japanese language and East Asian affairs at [[Georgetown University]] in 1994–95, and he studied Spanish and Latin American affairs as a [[John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists|John S. Knight]] Fellow at [[Stanford University]] from 1999 to 2000.<ref>Stanford University Knight Fellowships. [http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/2000/index.html "Knight Fellowship Class of 2000"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720052259/http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/2000/index.html |date=2011-07-20 }}.</ref>
A frequent commentator on television and radio, Sullivan is a regular guest on the [[BBC Television]]'s ''[[Dateline London]]'' program.<ref>BBC World News. [http://bbcworld.mh.bbc.co.uk/Pages/Programme.aspx?id=24 "Dateline London"]. April 29.</ref> He and Jordan have also been featured authors at the Library of Congress [[National Book Festival]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6970|title=Library of Congress|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref>


==Career==
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==Early life and career==
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Sullivan was raised in [[Brunswick, Maine]] and graduated from the [[University of New Hampshire]] in 1981. After working for ''[[The Providence Journal]]'' in [[Rhode Island]] and the ''[[Gloucester Daily Times]]'' in [[Massachusetts]], Sullivan joined the ''Post'' in 1991.<ref name="projects.washingtonpost.com">''The Washington Post'' [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/kevin+sullivan/ Washington Post National: Staff - Kevin Sullivan].</ref> At the ''Post'', Sullivan has reported on six continents from more than 75 countries, including [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]], [[Iraq]], [[Cuba]], [[Burma]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Haiti]].
Sullivan and Jordan wrote ''The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail''. The book was given the [[Christopher Award]] in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/news/release/2011/02/14/alum-pulitzer-prize-winner-discuss-journalism-career-unh-feb-22|title=Alum, Pulitzer Prize Winner to Discuss Journalism Career at UNH Feb. 22|date=February 14, 2011|website=UNH Today}}</ref>


They also co-authored with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, [[Ariel Castro kidnappings|two of the women kidnapped]] and held for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro in [[Cleveland]]—of ''Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland'', published by Viking in April 2015. Sullivan also contributed a chapter to ''Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power'', a Washington Post biography of then-candidate Donald Trump published by Scribner in 2016.
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Sullivan spent a year studying Japanese language and East Asian affairs at [[Georgetown University]] in 1994–95, and he studied Spanish and Latin American affairs as a [[John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists|John S. Knight]] Fellow at [[Stanford University]] from 1999–2000.<ref>Stanford University Knight Fellowships. [http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/2000/index.html "Knight Fellowship Class of 2000"].</ref>


Sullivan and Jordan contributed a chapter to ''Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America,'' edited by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books in 2018. Sullivan and Jordan are the authors of ''Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath'', published by Scribner in August 2020. The book, with reporting contributions from Washington Post colleagues, was given a “starred” review by Kirkus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kevin-sullivan/trump-on-trial/|title=TRUMP ON TRIAL &#124; Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}}</ref>
==Career recognition and awards==
Sullivan and Jordan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series of stories about the Mexican criminal justice system.<ref>The Pulitzer Prize. [http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2003-International-Reporting "The 2003 Pulitzer Prize winners: International Reporting"].</ref> They were also finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, along with four ''Post'' photographers, for a series of stories on difficulties facing women around the world.<ref name="Pulitzer_2009">The Pulitzer Prize. [http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/2009 "2009 Finalists"].</ref> The Pulitzer citation credited the series for "its sensitive examination of how females in the developing world are often oppressed from birth to death, a reporting project marked by indelible portraits of women and girls and enhanced by multimedia presentations."<ref name="Pulitzer_2009"/>


==Awards==
Sullivan and Jordan, with ''Post'' colleague [[Keith Richburg]], also won the 1998 [[George Polk Awards|George Polk Award]] for their reporting on the [[1997 Asian Financial Crisis]].<ref>Long Island University George Polk Awards. [http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Polk/Previous.aspx#1998 "Previous Winners"].</ref> Sullivan and Jordan have also won several other journalism awards, including those from the [[Overseas Press Club|Overseas Press Club of America]]<ref>Overseas Press Club of America. [http://www.opcofamerica.org/awards/madeline-dane-ross-award-1998 "The Madeline Dane Ross Award of 1998"].</ref> and the [[Society of Professional Journalists]].<ref>The Society of Professional Journalists. [http://www.spj.org/sdxa2002c.asp "Sigma Delta Chi Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526161523/http://www.spj.org/sdxa2002c.asp |date=2011-05-26 }}. 2002.</ref>
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Sullivan and Jordan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series of stories about the Mexican criminal justice system. They were also finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, along with four ''Post'' photographers, for a series of stories on difficulties facing women around the world.


Sullivan was also part of a Post team that was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Reporting from Saudi Arabia, Sullivan contributed to what the Pulitzer board called the Post's “commanding and courageous” coverage of the October 2018 murder of Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Sullivan and Jordan are the authors of ''The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail'' .<ref>Jordan, Mary, and Kevin Sullivan. [http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143037170,00.html The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail]. New York: Penguin, 2005. Print.</ref> The book was honored with the [[Christopher Award]] in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.christophers.org/page.aspx?pid=255|title=The Christophers, Inc.|website=www.christophers.org|access-date=2016-07-05}}</ref>


Sullivan and Jordan, with ''Post'' colleague [[Keith Richburg]], also won the 1998 [[George Polk Awards|George Polk Award]] for their reporting on the [[1997 Asian Financial Crisis]]. Sullivan and Jordan have also won awards from the [[Overseas Press Club|Overseas Press Club of America]] and the [[Society of Professional Journalists]].
They were also the authors—together with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, [[Ariel Castro kidnappings|two of the women kidnapped]] and held for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro in [[Cleveland]]—of ''Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland'', published by Viking in April 2015.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/26/amanda-berry-gina-dejesus-book-cleveland-ariel-castro/26175649/ | title=After a decade of terror, Cleveland captives on their scars — and futures | work=USA Today | date=27 April 2015 | accessdate=15 May 2015}}</ref> The book reached the no. 1 position on ''The'' ''New York Times'' bestseller list on May 17, 2015.

Sullivan also contributed a chapter to Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, a Washington Post biography of then-candidate Donald Trump published by Scribner in 2016.<ref>Michael Kranish; Marc Fisher (23 August 2016). ''Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power'' (pp.416-417) </ref>

Sullivan and Jordan contributed a chapter to Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America, edited by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books in 2018.<ref>Mark Bailey, (6 March 2018). ''Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America.'' Introduction</ref>


== Works ==
== Works ==
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*Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (5 May 2005). ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Prison_Angel.html?id=WgXwAdDU3MoC The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail]''. Penguin Press. {{ISBN|978-1594200564}}
*Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (5 May 2005). ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Prison_Angel.html?id=WgXwAdDU3MoC The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail]''. Penguin Press. {{ISBN|978-1594200564}}
*Amanda Berry; Gina DeJesus; Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (27 April 2015). ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/Hope.html?id=8QUbBQAAQBAJ Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland]''. Viking Press. {{ISBN|978-0698178953}}
*Amanda Berry; Gina DeJesus; Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (27 April 2015). ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/Hope.html?id=8QUbBQAAQBAJ Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland]''. Viking Press. {{ISBN|978-0698178953}}
*Kevin Sullivan; Mary Jordan (25 August 2020). [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/books/review/what-were-we-thinking-carlos-lozada.html ''Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath''.] Scribner. {{ISBN|978-1-9821-5299-4}}.


===Selected works from 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories===
===Selected works from 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories===
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6706 In Mexico Hinterland, Life Beyond the Law]
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6706 In Mexico Hinterland, Life Beyond the Law]
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6708 Torture, A Ghost in Mexico's Closet]
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6708 Torture, A Ghost in Mexico's Closet]
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6710 Disparate Justice Imprisons Mexico's Poor]
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6710 Disparate Justice Imprisons Mexico's Poor]
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6711 Kidnapping is Growth Industry in Mexico]
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6711 Kidnapping is Growth Industry in Mexico]


===Selected works from Pulitzer Prize-finalist series on the difficulties facing women===
===Selected works from 2009 Pulitzer Prize-finalist series on the difficulties facing women===
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101102165.html A Mother's Final Look at Life]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101102165.html A Mother's Final Look at Life]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201886.html In Sierra Leone, Every Pregnancy Is a 'Chance of Dying']
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201886.html In Sierra Leone, Every Pregnancy Is a 'Chance of Dying']
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*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001580.html In Africa, One Family's Struggle With the Global Food Crisis]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001580.html In Africa, One Family's Struggle With the Global Food Crisis]


===Selected works from 2019 Pulitzer Prize-finalist series on the Jamal Khashoggi murder===
===Other selected works===
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/troubled-quiet-macho-angry-the-volatile-life-of-omar-mateen/2016/06/17/15229250-34a6-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html The troubled and volatile life of Orlando mass murderer Omar Mateen]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-is-chief-of-the-tribe-in-a-cowed-house-of-saud/2018/10/30/f6fa4b68-d946-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html?noredirect=on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is ‘chief of the tribe’ in a cowed House of Saud]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/police-call-him-an-isis-recruiter-he-says-hes-just-an-outspoken-preacher/2015/11/23/924d8f6e-8a15-11e5-9a07-453018f9a0ec_story.html Police call him an ISIS recruiter. He says he's just an outspoken preacher.]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/life-in-the-islamic-state/2015/10/01/overview/ Life in the "Islamic State"]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-americans-are-coming-texans-fear-obama-led-us-military-invasion/2015/07/04/58047fee-2001-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html The Americans Are Coming!]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-rare-look-inside-a-saudi-prison-that-showers-terrorists-with-perks/2015/03/01/2da9dfb4-a64e-11e4-a162-121d06ca77f1_story.html A rare look inside a Saudi prison that showers terrorists with perks]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-flogging-in-saudi-arabia-is-just-one-sign-of-a-new-crackdown-on-rights-activists/2015/01/20/e9c50f86-9da0-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html Flogging case in Saudi Arabia is just one sign of a new crackdown on rights activists]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/syrian-refugees/story/refuge/ 18 stories from Syrian Exodus]
*[http://www.minaret.org/iol/afghantorture.htm A Body and Spirit Broken by the Taliban]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/06/AR2006110601256.html A Hymn to Yesterday: Paul McCartney Premieres His Choral Work, an Elegy for Linda]
*[https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-11-12/world/35504094_1_saudi-women-young-women-saudi-arabia Saudi Arabia struggles to employ its most-educated women]
*[https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-06/world/41833837_1_armed-militias-libya-s-revolution Two years after Libya's revolution, government struggles to control hundreds of armed militias]
*[https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-08-04/world/35493092_1_iraq-struggles-iraq-in-two-years-limo In Iraq, scenes of hope and fear seven months after U.S. troops’ departure]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/iraq-after-america/ Nine portraits of Iraq without America]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/16/AR2007071601938.html Novel Faiths Find Followers Among Russia's Disillusioned]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/brokenlives/broken5.htm S. Korea's Middle Class Hides Its Despair ]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/brokenlives/broken4a.htm Death of 3 Salesmen - Partners in Suicide]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/?utm_term=.e6c1eff28f08 The un-Celebrity President]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/04/05/feature/for-an-american-teen-whose-parents-were-deported-to-mexico-an-agonizing-choice/?utm_term=.abb3979a174e Lulu’s Choice]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2017/03/18/fear-hope-and-deportations/?utm_term=.ac95a912ce00 Fear, Hope and Deportations]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/12/02/voices-from-standing-rock/?utm_term=.07a1f125c9a2 Voices from Standing Rock]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/12/07/as-dylann-roof-trial-begins-prosecutor-describes-each-victims-life-and-how-they-died/?utm_term=.f0d445176ea2 ‘Evil, evil, evil as can be’: Emotional testimony as Dylann Roof trial begins]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/fidel-castro-cuban-dictator-dies-at-90/2016/11/26/f37bf3bc-b399-11e6-be1c-8cec35b1ad25_story.html?utm_term=.0640e36ad71c Fidel Castro, revolutionary leader who remade Cuba as a socialist state, dies at 90]
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-a-president-trump-global-real-estate-deals-present-unprecedented-gray-areas/2016/05/30/beac0038-15fa-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html?utm_term=.24b228f8dbc0 For a President Trump, global real estate deals present unprecedented gray areas]

===Appearances and interviews===
*[http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/chip-on-your-shoulder/69900/shoulder-to-shoulder-the-art-and-chaos-of-collaboration/# Shoulder to Shoulder: The Art and Chaos of Collaboration] (Poynter Institute, 2005)
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/a-book-on-the-cleveland-kidnapping-survivors/2015/04/29/105e33a4-edef-11e4-8050-839e9234b303_video.html The Cleveland kidnapping: 'He took everything away'] (''Washington Post'' TV, 2015)
*[https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6970 Hope: Survival in Cleveland: 2015 National Book Festival] (Library of Congress, 2015)


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Kevin Sullivan
Born (1959-11-05) November 5, 1959 (age 65)
Occupationjournalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of New Hampshire
Genrenon-fiction

Kevin Sullivan (born November 5, 1959) is an American journalist and author who is an associate editor at The Washington Post. Sullivan was a Post foreign correspondent for 14 years, working with his wife, Mary Jordan, as the newspaper's co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City and London. Sullivan is known for parachuting into faraway places, from Congo to Burma to Baghdad. He went to Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and to Saudi Arabia when King Abdullah died, and again after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. He has also worked as the Post's chief foreign correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and Features Editor.

Sullivan and Jordan wrote three books together. Trump on Trial chronicled the Trump impeachment, and Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland was written with kidnapping survivors with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. Sullivan and Jordan have also been featured authors at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Early life and education

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Sullivan was raised in Brunswick, Maine and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1981. After working for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island and the Gloucester Daily Times in Massachusetts, Sullivan joined the Post in 1991.[1]

Sullivan spent a year studying Japanese language and East Asian affairs at Georgetown University in 1994–95, and he studied Spanish and Latin American affairs as a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University from 1999 to 2000.[2]

Career

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Sullivan and Jordan wrote The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. The book was given the Christopher Award in 2006.[3]

They also co-authored with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the women kidnapped and held for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro in Cleveland—of Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, published by Viking in April 2015. Sullivan also contributed a chapter to Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, a Washington Post biography of then-candidate Donald Trump published by Scribner in 2016.

Sullivan and Jordan contributed a chapter to Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America, edited by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books in 2018. Sullivan and Jordan are the authors of Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath, published by Scribner in August 2020. The book, with reporting contributions from Washington Post colleagues, was given a “starred” review by Kirkus.[4]

Awards

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Sullivan and Jordan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series of stories about the Mexican criminal justice system. They were also finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, along with four Post photographers, for a series of stories on difficulties facing women around the world.

Sullivan was also part of a Post team that was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Reporting from Saudi Arabia, Sullivan contributed to what the Pulitzer board called the Post's “commanding and courageous” coverage of the October 2018 murder of Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Sullivan and Jordan, with Post colleague Keith Richburg, also won the 1998 George Polk Award for their reporting on the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. Sullivan and Jordan have also won awards from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Works

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Bibliography

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  • Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (5 May 2005). The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1594200564
  • Amanda Berry; Gina DeJesus; Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (27 April 2015). Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland. Viking Press. ISBN 978-0698178953
  • Kevin Sullivan; Mary Jordan (25 August 2020). Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath. Scribner. ISBN 978-1-9821-5299-4.

Selected works from 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories

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Selected works from 2009 Pulitzer Prize-finalist series on the difficulties facing women

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Selected works from 2019 Pulitzer Prize-finalist series on the Jamal Khashoggi murder

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References

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  1. ^ The Washington Post Washington Post National: Staff - Kevin Sullivan.
  2. ^ Stanford University Knight Fellowships. "Knight Fellowship Class of 2000" Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ "Alum, Pulitzer Prize Winner to Discuss Journalism Career at UNH Feb. 22". UNH Today. February 14, 2011.
  4. ^ "TRUMP ON TRIAL | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
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