Linda Greenhouse Biography
Linda Greenhouse is a legal journalist from the United States who is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and the Joseph M. Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has covered the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times for nearly three decades. She is President of the American Philosophical Society and a Phi Beta Kappa Senate member.
How old is Linda Greenhouse? – Age
She is 74 years old as of 9 January 2021. She was born Linda Joyce Greenhouse in 1947 in New York, New York, United States.
Linda Greenhouse Family – Education
Greenhouse was born in New York City to H. Robert Greenhouse, a physician and Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry, and Dorothy (née Greenlick). In 1968, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in government from Radcliffe College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1978, she earned a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School.
Linda Greenhouse Husband
She is married to lawyer Eugene R. Fidell. The couple married in a Jewish ceremony on January 1, 1981, in Washington, D.C. They have a daughter, Hannah Fidell, a filmmaker who was born on October 7, 1985.
Linda Greenhouse Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Linda Greenhouse Pulitzer
Greenhouse won the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (Beat Reporting) in 1998 for “consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.” In 2004, she received the Goldsmith Career Award for Journalism Excellence as well as the John Chancellor Award for Journalism Excellence. In 2006, she was awarded the Radcliffe Institute Medal.
Linda Greenhouse Career
Greenhouse began her 40-year career at The New York Times, where she covered state government in the paper’s Albany bureau. [After receiving a Ford Foundation fellowship to complete her master’s degree, she returned to the Times and covered 29 Supreme Court sessions from 1978 to 2007, with the exception of two years in the mid-1980s when she covered Congress. She has written over 2,800 articles for the New York Times since 1981. She has appeared on the PBS show Washington Week on a regular basis.
Greenhouse accepted an early retirement offer from The New York Times in 2008, at the end of the Supreme Court’s session in the summer of that year. On June 12, 2008, seven of the nine sitting Justices attended Greenhouse’s farewell party. She is still blogging for The New York Times in the “Opinionator” section.
Greenhouse and co-author Reva Siegel published Before Roe v. Wade, a book about the evolution of the abortion debate prior to the 1973 Supreme Court decision. This was primarily a collection of primary documents, with some commentary. In a 2006 speech at Harvard University, Greenhouse criticized US policies and actions at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Haditha. Greenhouse said in it that she began crying at a Simon & Garfunkel concert a few years ago because her generation had not done a better job of running the country than previous generations.
