Robert F. Worth | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Author |
Spouse | Alice Clapman |
Children | Isaac, Felix |
Robert Forsyth Worth (born September 29, 1965)[1] is an American author and journalist. He was the former chief of The New York Times Beirut bureau.[2] He is the author of Rage for Order.[3]
Worth was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City.[4] He has a Ph.D. (in English) from Princeton University.[5]
Worth became a New York Times reporter at the metropolitan desk in 2000. He was the Times correspondent in Baghdad from 2003 to 2006,[6] and their Beirut bureau chief from 2007 until 2011.[4] He has also contributed to The New York Review of Books.[7]
From 2014 to 2015, he was a public policy fellow in the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars while writing Rage for Order.[7][8] While there, he worked on "The Arab Revolts and their Legacy" project.
He has been a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award.[4]
He won a silver medal in the 2017 Arthur Ross Book Award given by the Council on Foreign Relations for his book A Rage for Order.[9]