1. Fox Butterfield was born on 8 July 1939 and is an American journalist who spent much of his 30-year career reporting for The New York Times.
11 Facts About Fox Butterfield
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Fox Butterfield wrote All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence about the child criminal Willie Bosket.
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In 1990, Fox Butterfield wrote an article on the first African-American to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review, future president of the United States Barack Obama.
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Fox Butterfield was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the son of Lyman Henry Fox Butterfield, a historian and a director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Fox Butterfield's father named him "Fox" after the English Parliamentary leader, Charles James Fox, who sided with the colonists.
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In 1988, Fox Butterfield married Elizabeth Mehren, a reporter for The Los Angeles Times.
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Fox Butterfield has two children, Ethan and Sarah, from a previous marriage.
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Michael Moriarty played Fox Butterfield in the 1993 television movie Born Too Soon, based on Mehren's book about their daughter Emily, who was born prematurely in the late 1980s and lived only six weeks.
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The couple live in Hingham, Massachusetts, about which Fox Butterfield has sometimes written in The Times.
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Taranto coined the term after reading Fox Butterfield's articles discussing the "paradox" of crime rates falling while the prison population grew due to tougher sentencing guidelines.
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Taranto and a Jewish World Review columnist, along with the conservative Weekly Standard, felt that Fox Butterfield should have considered that the tougher sentencing guidelines might have reduced crime by causing more criminals to be in jail.