Roger Cohen is foreign editor of the New York Times,
where he has worked since 1990, primarily as Paris
correspondent and as bureau chief in the Balkans and
Berlin. Before that he reported for Reuters and the Wall
Street Journal. He has received innumerable awards,
including four from the Overseas Press Club. In 2001, he
was awarded a lectureship at Harvard. His last book, on the
Balkan war, was a New York Times Notable Book of the
Year. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
