Max Frankel was an American journalist who was executive editor of The New York Times from 1986 to 1994.
20 Facts About Max Frankel
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Max Frankel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his coverage of Richard Nixon's visit to China.
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Max Frankel brought attention to The New York Times underreporting on the Holocaust.
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Max Frankel is the father of film director David Frankel.
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Max Frankel was an only child, and his family belonged to a Jewish minority in the area; his parents were from Galicia, and had Polish passports.
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Max Frankel came to the United States in 1940 without being able to speak English at the age of nine with his mother to be with his cousins in New York.
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Max Frankel attended Columbia College, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator, and began part-time work for The New York Times when he was 19.
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Max Frankel received his BA degree in 1952 and an MA in government from Columbia in 1953.
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Max Frankel joined The Times as a full-time reporter in 1952.
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Max Frankel wrote many articles about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Max Frankel became the White House correspondent of The New York Times in 1966.
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Max Frankel was chief Washington correspondent and head of the Washington bureau from 1968 to 1972, during which he was a key actor in shepherding the eventual publication of The Pentagon Papers after he received excerpts of the papers from Neil Sheehan in March 1971.
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Max Frankel became Sunday editor of the times in 1973.
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Max Frankel won the Pulitzer Prize the same year for his coverage of Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China.
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Max Frankel was one of the panelists at the second 1976 United States presidential debate.
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Max Frankel was interviewed in the 1985 documentary We Were So Beloved, a movie that interviewed German Jews who emigrated from Nazi Germany to New York City.
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On November 14,2001, in the 150th anniversary issue, The New York Times ran an article by the then-retired Max Frankel reporting that before and during World War II, the Times had as a matter of policy largely, though not entirely, ignored reports of the annihilation of European Jews.
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Max Frankel was married again in 1988 to Joyce Purnick, a Times columnist and editor.
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Max Frankel could speak German, Yiddish, and Polish, as well as some Russian, French and Spanish.
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Max Frankel died from bladder cancer at his home in Manhattan, New York on March 23,2025, at the age of 94.