About the Author
Sheryl WuDunn is a Chinese American journalist and editor for The New York Times. She is currently industry and international business editor at the Times. She formerly was journalist/anchor of The New York Times Page One, a production of New York Times Television Enterprises. She also has worked in The New York Times Beijing and Tokyo bureaus, as well as for the Miami Herald, Reuters, and The Wall Street Journal. She is perhaps best known for winning the Pulitzer Prize with her husband Nicolas D. Kristof for her reporting from Beijing about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. WuDunn and Kristof were the first married couple ever to receive the award for journalism.