Early life and career

Sullivan was raised in Brunswick, Maine and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1981. After working for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island and the Gloucester Daily Times in Massachusetts, Sullivan joined The Post in 1991.

Sullivan spent a year studying Japanese and East Asian affairs at Georgetown University in 1994-95, and he studied Spanish and Latin American affairs as a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University from 1999-2000.

Career recognition and awards

Sullivan and Jordan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series of stories about the Mexican criminal justice system. They were also finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, along with four Post photographers, for a series of stories on difficulties facing women around the world. The Pulitzer citation credited the series for "its sensitive examination of how females in the developing world are often oppressed from birth to death, a reporting project marked by indelible portraits of women and girls and enhanced by multimedia presentations."

Sullivan and Jordan, with Post colleague Keith Richburg, also won the 1998 George Polk Award for their reporting on the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. Sullivan and Jordan have also won several other journalism awards, including those from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Sullivan has reported on six continents from more than 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Cuba, Burma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone and Haiti. Sullivan and Jordan are also the authors of The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail (The Penguin Press, 2005). The book was honored with the Christopher Award in 2006.

Together with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the women kidnapped and held for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Jordan and Sullivan wrote the book Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, published by Viking in April 2015.

Works

Bibliography

• Amanda Berry; Gina DeJesus; Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (27 April 2015). Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland. Penguin Publishing Group. pp. 263-. ISBN 978-0-698-17895-3. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)

Selected works from 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories

• In Mexico Hinterland, Life Beyond the Law
• Torture, A Ghost in Mexico's Closet
• Disparate Justice Imprisons Mexico's Poor
• Kidnapping is Growth Industry in Mexico

Selected works from Pulitzer Prize-finalist series on the difficulties facing women

• A Mother's Final Look at Life
• In Sierra Leone, Every Pregnancy Is a 'Chance of Dying'
• Africa's Last and Leas
• In Africa, One Family's Struggle With the Global Food Crisis

Other selected works

• 18 stories from Syrian Exodus
• A Body and Spirit Broken by the Taliban
• A Hymn to Yesterday: Paul McCartney Premieres His Choral Work, an Elegy for Linda
• Saudi Arabia struggles to employ its most-educated women
• Two years after Libya’s revolution, government struggles to control hundreds of armed militias
• In Iraq, scenes of hope and fear seven months after U.S. troops’ departure
• Nine portraits of Iraq without America
• Novel Faiths Find Followers Among Russia's Disillusioned
• S. Korea's Middle Class Hides Its Despair
• Death of 3 Salesmen - Partners in Suicide

Poynter Institute interview with Sullivan and Jordan

• Shoulder to Shoulder: The Art and Chaos of Collaboration

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