Joseph Lelyveld, Major American Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author-- Reading

Joseph Lelyveld worked at the NY Times from 1962-2001 as foreign correspondent, London bureau chief, foreign editor, managing editor, and executive editor. His new, controversial biography is Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India (2011). Publishers Weekly called it “A stirring evenhanded account that relates the failure of Gandhi’s politics of saintliness while attesting to its enduring power.” He won the Pulitzer for his 1984 book Move Your Shadow: South Africa Black and White.