Thomas L. Friedman is a world-renowned author and journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has travelled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting on the Middle East conflict, the end of the Cold War, and U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy. He is the author of three best-selling books: From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Longitudes and Attitudes, and Hot, Flat and Crowded. His foreign affairs column appears twice a week in the New York Times. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.