{{short description|American writer and author (born 1950)}} {{Infobox person | image = froma harrop headshot.jpg | name = Froma Harrop | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|03|18}} | birth_place = New York City | death_date = | death_place = | education = New York University | occupation = Columnist | other_names = | disappeared_status = Widowed | title = | family = | spouse = | children = 2 | relatives = | credits = Top 100 Syndicated Columnists | website = http://www.fromaharrop.com }}
'''Froma Harrop''' (born March 18, 1950, in New York City) is an American writer and author.
==Early life== Born in New York City, Harrop was raised in suburban Long Island and attended New York University. She graduated in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Peck|first=Greg|title=Meet columnist Froma Harrop|url=https://www.gazettextra.com/archives/meet-columnist-froma-harrop/article_42a3b236-6642-5aba-aef5-74f9b45201bf.html|access-date=2021-01-14|website=GazetteXtra|date=10 February 2010 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Loew|first=Karen|date=November 24, 2010|title=Missing Half of the Potentially Best Ideas|url=https://forward.com/opinion/133402/missing-half-of-the-potentially-best-ideas/|access-date=2021-01-14|website=The Forward|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Career== Harrop worked at the financial desk at Reuters, covering business and the Federal Reserve,<ref>Detroit News Online. [http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=OPINION0351 Froma Harrop Bio at DetNews]</ref> and later became a business editor for The New York Times News Service. She then worked as a business writer for the ''Providence Journal'' in Rhode Island and subsequently joined the ''Journal'''s editorial board, where she was a member until 2013. Harrop currently resides in Providence and New York City.
Harrop is a past president of the Association of Opinion Journalists, formerly known as the National Conference of Editorial Writers.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ncew.org/index.php?submenu=AboutNCEWBoardCommittees&src=gendocs&ref=NCEWBoardandCommittees&category=AboutNCEW | title = NCEW Board and Committees | accessdate = 2014-01-07 | publisher = The National Conference of Editorial Writers | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110611082546/http://www.ncew.org/index.php?submenu=AboutNCEWBoardCommittees&src=gendocs&ref=NCEWBoardandCommittees&category=AboutNCEW | archivedate = 2011-06-11}}</ref><ref>[http://www.opinionjournalists.org/aboutncew/past-presidents/ Past Presidents] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811010938/http://www.opinionjournalists.org/aboutncew/past-presidents/ |date=2020-08-11 }}, National Conference of Editorial Writers</ref>
==Awards== * Bastiat Prize for Journalism finalist in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reason.org/news/show/finalists-for-the-2015-bastiat-priz|title=Finalists for the 2015 Bastiat Prize for Journalism|date=2 October 2015 }}</ref> * Loeb Awards finalist for economic commentary in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2011/loeb-award-finalists|title=Loeb Award Finalists - UCLA Anderson School of Management|work=ucla.edu|accessdate=12 December 2014|archive-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412185523/https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2011/loeb-award-finalists|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Loeb Awards finalist for economic commentary in 2004.<ref>UCLA Anderson School of Management. [http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x4985.xml Gerald Loeb Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830104756/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x4985.xml |date=2006-08-30 }}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.fromaharrop.com Official site] *[http://www.creators.com/opinion/froma-harrop.html Froma Harrop Features] at Creators Syndicate
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