JFIFddPhotoshop 3.08BIMCaptionxWilliam Safire, winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, joined The New York Times in April 1973 as a political columnist. He also writes a Sunday column, On Language, which has appeared in The New York Times Magazine since 1979. This column on grammar, usage, and etymology has led to the publication of 10 books and made him the most widely read writer on the English language. Before joining The Times, Safire was a senior White House speechwriter for President Nixon. He had previously been a radio and television producer and a U.S. Army correspondent. He began his career as a reporter for The New York Herald Tribune. From 1955 to 1960, Safire was vice president of a public relations firm in New York City, then became president of his own firm, Safire Public Relations, Inc. He was responsible for bringing Mr. Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev together in the 1959 Moscow kitchen debate. In 1968, he joined the campaign of Richard Nixon. He is the author of Freedom (1987), a novel of Lincoln and the Civil War. His other novels include Full Disclosure (1977), Sleeper Spy (1995) and Scandalmonger (2000). Additional works include a dictionary, The New Language of Politics (1968); The Relations Explosion (1962); Plunging Into Politics (1964); Before the Fall, (1974); a history of the pre-Watergate Nixon years; Lend Me Your Ears (1992), a speech anthology; and The First Dissident (1992), a political interpretation of the Book of Job. Safire and his brother Len compiled three quotation anthologies: Good Advice, Words of Wisdom and Leadership (1986, 1989, 1990). His early political columns were collected in book form as Safires Washington (1980). Safire was born on Dec. 17, 1929, and attended Syracuse University; a dropout after two years, he returned a generation later to deliver the commencement address and is now a trustee. Since 1995 he has served as a member of the Pulitzer Board. 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