20 Facts About Ron Suskind

Ronald Steven Suskind was born on November 20,1959 and is an American journalist, author, and filmmaker.

Ron Suskind was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000, where he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for articles that became the starting point for his first book, A Hope in the Unseen.

Ron Suskind is the son of Shirley Berney and Walter B Suskind, and a second cousin of producer David Susskind.

Ron Suskind grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Concord High School, after which he attended the University of Virginia.

In 1990, Ron Suskind went to The Wall Street Journal, and became senior national affairs reporter in 1993.

Ron Suskind has written six books, and he has published in such periodicals as Esquire and The New York Times Magazine.

Ron Suskind has appeared on NBC's Today Show, ABC's Nightline and PBS's Charlie Rose.

Ron Suskind has two sons with his wife, Cornelia Anne Kennedy Ron Suskind.

In 2002, Suskind wrote two articles in Esquire on the workings of the George W Bush White House.

Ron Suskind says his writing style for this book was to use exhaustive reporting to place readers inside the heads of characters.

The doctrine, Ron Suskind asserts, freed the administration from the dictates of evidence and allowed suspicion to be a guide for action in both its battles against terrorists and against rogue states, like Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

Ron Suskind was forced to quit his role and go into hiding, after extremists issued a Fatwa calling for his death.

Ron Suskind is a romantic, a writer who clearly believes that his country has betrayed its past, its values and its moral compass by failing to tell the truth about the war.

Ron Suskind responded to the Rob Richer's denial, circulated by the White House, by posting on his website a partial transcript of a taped conversation with Richer in which the two discuss the Habbush forgery.

Ron Suskind maintained that the book represented an accurate depiction of what he had found in his reporting.

Ron Suskind chose to publish the book through a Disney imprint because of his son's frequent quotation of Disney movies in the book; otherwise, he would have had to pay licensing fees for each line of dialogue used.

Ron Suskind calls this intense interest in Disney an example of an autism "affinity," referring to the propensity for individuals with autism to develop sustained, self-directed passions in one or a few subject areas.

Ron Suskind memorized every line of dialogue in the films and learned, in his own way, how to re-enact each scene, fully loaded with the emotions and the moral lessons embedded in them.

Ron Suskind describes the positive response as a "giant warm wave" that differentiates this "personal" narrative from his others.

Ron Suskind has since spoken to audiences at the United Nations and the NIH; testified in front of the United States Congress; and appeared on numerous TV and radio shows, including ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams, CBS's Sunday Morning, NPR and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.