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Alex Beam '71
Author/Reporter, the Boston Globe
On campus
February 9, 2006
A native of Washington, D.C., Alex Beam graduated
from Yale College in 1975. (PEA in '71, of course).
He worked for the House Select Committee on Intelligence,
and also as an English-Russian Interpreter for
the U.S. Information Agency in Russia. He began
his career in journalism as a researcher at Newsweek magazine
in 1977. From there he moved to Business Week as
a correspondent in Los Angeles, and then as Bureau
Chief in Moscow and Boston.
In 1986, Beam joined the Boston Globe as
a business reporter. A year later he started writing
a thrice-weekly column that combined gossip, humor
and purported insight into the world of New England
business. The column won several awards, including
a Best of Boston Citation and the John Hancock
Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism. Beam
is now a columnist for the Globe's Living/Arts
page. During the 1996-1997 academic year, he was
a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford
University.
In addition to his jounalistic work, Beam is also
the author of two novels about Russia, Fellow
Travelers (1987) and The Russians Are
Coming! (1991), both published by St. Martin's
Press. His non-fiction book about Mclean Hospital, Gracefully
Insane, spent several months on the Boston
Globe best-seller list and was a New York
Times Notable Book of 2002.
Beam lives in Newton, MA with his wife and three
sons.
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