Glenn Frankel is an American author and academic, journalist and winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
[3] Author of five books, his latest works explore the making of an iconic American movie in the context of the historical era it reflects.
[4] He was named a 2021-2 research fellow of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York for a book about Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
[8] From 1989 to 1992 he served as the Post's London bureau chief, covering the political demise of Margaret Thatcher, the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War.
[10] Besides writing for The Washington Post, Frankel's work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Mother Jones, New Statesman, Moment, Zocalo Public Square, and several anthologies.
[20] The book, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation and the Making of a Dark Classic, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2021.