Frank Bruni Biography
Frank Bruni is a writer and journalist from the United States. He is presently a journalist for The New York Times. Frank is also a CNN contributor and the author of many books.
How old is Frank Bruni? – Age
Where did Frank Bruni go to school? – Education
Bruni attended The Loomis Chaffee School, an exclusive boarding and day college preparatory school in Windsor, Connecticut, before attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a B.A. in English and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1986. He was a Morehead Scholar who wrote for The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper. He subsequently attended Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he finished second in his class with a master’s degree in journalism and a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
Frank Bruni Married
Frank is a naturally gay person. Since becoming a prominent person, Frank has been open about his sexuality. In 2017, he attracted notice with his writings titled “Donnie and Vlad: A Love Story.” In 2015, he mentioned his partner’s name as Tom in one of his tweets.
What is Bruni Salary?
He earns $78,536 annually.
Bruni Net Worth
He has a net worth of $1.1 million.
Frank Bruni Career
Bruni joined the staff of the New York Post after graduating from Columbia, and then went on to the Detroit Free Press, where he covered a variety of beats, including a spell covering the Persian Gulf War. He was a film critic for more than a year, and he also wrote extensively on LGBT problems and AIDS. He was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing in 1992 for his profile of a convicted child molester. Bruni joined The New York Times as a metropolitan correspondent in 1995, and she frequently contributed for the Times’ Sunday magazine and Sunday Arts & Leisure. In 1998, he was assigned to the Washington, D.C., bureau, where he covered Capitol Hill and Congress, before being sent on the campaign trail to follow then-Texas Governor George W. Bush. He then covered the White House for the first eight months of the Bush administration and served as the Washington-based staff writer for the Sunday magazine. He was appointed to Rome bureau chief in July 2002. He became the Times’ food reviewer two years later. After more than five years in that role, he returned to the magazine for a brief period before becoming an op-ed columnist. He taught a journalism class at Princeton University in the spring of 2014. The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association honored him with the Randy Shilts Award in 2016 for his career-long service to LGBT Americans. In 2012 and 2013, he received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist. Bruni’s book Ambling into History chronicles his time covering Bush’s campaign. Born Round deals in part with his time as the Times’ restaurant critic and was named one of the best nonfiction books of 2009 by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, and Amazon.com. In the Times’ Sunday Book Review, Dominique Browning raved that “the love with which Bruni writes about his family is breathtaking.” Publishers Weekly deemed Born Round a “powerful, honest book about desire, shame, identity, and self-image.”
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be was published by Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, in March 2015 and was reissued in an expanded, updated paperback a year later. In a review of it in The Washington Post, Wesleyan University President Michael Roth called it “a humane, measured book” with “lessons for a very wide audience indeed.” In February 2017, Bruni released his first cookbook, written with his Times colleague Jennifer Steinhauer titled A Meatloaf in Every Oven. It includes recipes from such prominent chefs as Bobby Flay and April Bloomfield. Bruni has also done extensive reporting on religion and is the author, with Elinor Burkett, of A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church. His freelance work has appeared in several magazines, including Conde Nast Traveler. Although he formalized a relationship with CNN in September 2017 and appears on its shows as a commentator about four times a week, he also appears occasionally on Real Time with Bill Maher, and has been a guest on late-night talk shows as well. He once served as a guest judge on Top Chef and appeared briefly in the movie Julie & Julia, which was written and directed by his friend Nora Ephron. In February 2018, he wrote a lengthy and extremely personal essay for the New York Times about an illness that had deprived him his functional vision in his right eye overnight. He recounted how difficult it was to adjust to this, as well as what it was like to live with the worry that his left eye might be impacted as well. He is currently working on a book for Simon & Schuster that will be released in late 2020 and will reflect on the experience further as well as explore aging and physical limits among Baby Boomers who previously believed themselves indestructible.
Bruni’s presence at the Times increased in September 2018 to include a weekly email that readers may subscribe to for free. It arrives in their inboxes midday Wednesday every week. It mingles political commentary with cultural riffs and personal reflections. Bruni’s last regularly scheduled opinion column for The New York Times appeared on June 17, 2021.
Awards
The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association honored him with the Randy Shilts Award in 2016 for his career-long service to LGBT Americans. In 2012 and 2013, he received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist. Bruni’s book Ambling into History chronicles his time covering Bush’s campaign.
Bruni’s Books
-Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions (Chinese Edition) published on Mar 1, 2017. -A Meatloaf in Every Oven: Two Chatty Cooks, One Iconic Dish and Dozens of Recipes – from Moms to Mario Batali’s published on Feb 7, 2017) -Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania published on Mar 8, 2016. -Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater published on Jun 29, 2010. -Italy: The Best Travel Writing from the New York Times published on May 1, 2005. -A gospel of shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church published on Jun 4, 2002. -Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush published on Mar 5, 2002.
Bruni’s Blindness
In February 2018, he wrote a lengthy personal piece for The New York Times. The piece discussed Frank’s illness and how he lost eyesight in his right eye. He detailed the challenges he had as he tried to acclimate to his new situation in the piece. Frank also discusses how he lives in constant worry that his left eye may be damaged as well.