{{Short description|American writer}}

'''Roger Thurow''' is an American author<ref>"Roger Thurow". [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ARoger+Thurow&dblist=638&fq=ap%3A%22thurow%2C+roger%22&qt=facet_ap%3A WorldCat]</ref> and a journalist.<ref>[http://www.oanow.com/news/auburnuniversity/article_9c654e36-160e-11e5-aaf9-0b00d3832364.html "University presidents from around the world create action agenda to solve hunger "]. ''OANow.com''</ref> He is a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. As of 2010, Thurow is a senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is noted for his writing about the politics of world hunger.<ref name="PiragesDeGeest2004">{{cite book|author1=Dennis Pirages|author-link1=Dennis C. Pirages|author2=Theresa Manley DeGeest|title=Ecological Security: An Evolutionary Perspective on Globalization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SFA2CcxvwSkC&pg=PA267|year=2004|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-9501-0|pages=267–}}</ref><ref name="ArrighiMaume2007">{{cite book|author1=Barbara A. Arrighi|author2=David J. Maume|title=Child Poverty in America Today: Health and medical care|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KEmCEm7AMYEC&pg=PR17|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-98928-6|pages=17–}}</ref><ref>[http://www.dailyiowan.com/2014/11/19/Metro/40119.html "UI officials recognize pair for contributions to public health"]. ''The Daily Iowan''. BY GRACE PATERAS | NOVEMBER 19, 2014</ref>

==Early life and education== Thurow grew up in Crystal Lake, Illinois and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1979.

==Career== For thirty years Thurow worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal,<ref name="Fick2007">{{cite book|author=David Fick|title=Africa: Continent of Economic Opportunity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lw4iBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA500|date=1 April 2007|publisher=Real African Publishers|isbn=978-1-919855-47-9|pages=500–}}</ref> and for twenty of those years he was based abroad in Europe and Africa.<ref name="JungJung2012">{{cite book|author1=Patricia Beattie Jung|author2=L. Shannon Jung|title=Moral Issues and Christian Responses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hwrt0Cxy6MIC&pg=PT599|date=1 September 2012|publisher=Fortress Press|isbn=978-0-8006-9896-6|pages=599–}}</ref> After writing a series on famine in Africa, Thurow and Scott Kilman, fellow Wall Street Journal colleague, were finalists for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/International-Reporting "The Pulitzer Prizes | International Reporting"]. </ref> In 2009 Thurow and Kilman authored the book ''Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty''.<ref name="Clapp2012">{{cite book|author=Jennifer Clapp|title=Food|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sb062_eta3UC&pg=PA203|year=2012|publisher=Polity|isbn=978-0-7456-4936-8|pages=203–}}</ref> They received Action Against Hunger's Humanitarian Award for this book in 2009. <ref>[http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/blog/action-against-hunger-honor-humanitarians "Action Against Hunger to Honor Humanitarians"]. </ref> Thurow's second book, ''The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change'', was published in the spring of 2012.

Thurow also lectures on various topics about the world economy,<ref>[http://www.speakers4schools.org/news-media/journalist-and-activist-roger-thurow-leads-students-uganda-and-hackney-session-world "Journalist and Activist Roger Thurow leads students from Uganda and Hackney in a session on world hunger | Speakers for Schools"]. </ref><ref>[http://www.lakeforest.edu/live/news/2958-roger-thurow-selected-as-ruth-winter-lecturer "Roger Thurow selected as Ruth Winter Lecturer"]. </ref> and writes for the Huffington Post.

Thurow currently resides in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois with his wife and two children.

== References == <ref name="KitchPerlman1998">{{cite book|author1=Edmund W. Kitch|author2=Harvey S. Perlman|title=Intellectual property and unfair competition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nxBBAQAAIAAJ|date=20 August 1998|publisher=Foundation Press|page=303}}</ref> <ref>[http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000304314&source=Bookmark&u=22396_largo&jsid=afd4e250ed1c83fedaf99e9d980afa7a "Roger Thurow." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 7 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000304314]</ref> <ref>University Web Communications. [http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/10/roger-thurow-the-last-hunger-season/ "Roger Thurow “The Last Hunger Season”"]. ''Vanderbilt University''. </ref> <ref>[http://www.cargill.com/news/author-roger-thurow-discusses-food-security/index.jsp "Cargill: News Center - Author Roger Thurow discusses potential of smallholders at Cargill"]. </ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/GLOBALAGDEVELOPMENT/gad/AboutUs/Thurow_Biography.aspx Roger Thurlow's biography at the Chicago Council]

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