Sam Freedman

Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A former columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University, he is the author of the nine acclaimed books, and recently completed his tenth, which is about Hubert Humphrey, Civil Rights, and the 1948 Democratic convention. Entitled Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights, it will be published in July 2023 by Oxford University Press.

A tenured professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Freedman was named the nation’s outstanding journalism educator in 1997 by the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2012, he received Columbia University’s coveted Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. Freedman’s class in book-writing has developed more than 100 authors, editors, and agents, and it has been featured in Publishers Weekly and the Christian Science Monitor.  Freedman holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from UW-Madison. He lives in New York with his wife, Christia Chana Blomquist, whom he met when both were students at UW.