Andrew Sullivan

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Andrew Sullivan is a writer, editor, political commentator, and one of the world's most widely read bloggers

Aug 10, 1963

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: August 10, 1963
  • Nationality: British
  • Famous: Author, Harvard University, Media Personalities, Editors, Miscellaneous
  • Spouses: Aaron Tone
  • Known as: Andrew Michael Sullivan
  • Universities:
    • Harvard University
    • Magdalen College
    • Oxford
    • Harvard University
    • John F. Kennedy School of Government
    • Reigate Grammar School
  • Notable Alumnis:
    • Harvard University

Andrew Sullivan born at

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Birth Place

Andrew Sullivan is openly gay. He was diagnosed to be HIV-positive in the 1990s but has managed to keep the infection from progressing further. He is an outspoken supporter of gay rights and same-sex marriages.

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Personal Life

Andrew Sullivan was born on 10 August 1963, in South Godstone, Surrey, England, into a Roman Catholic family. His father worked in an insurance company. Andrew has two siblings.

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Childhood & Early Life

He was a bright child and went to Reigate Grammar School. Later on he studied at the Magdalen College, Oxford, from where he did his Bachelor of Arts in modern history and modern languages.

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As a teenager he had realized that he was gay and this made him very confused. He felt lonely and alienated.

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He furthered his education at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, earning a Master in Public Administration in 1986.

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He started working with ‘The New Republic’ magazine in 1986.

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Career

He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in government from Harvard in 1990. His doctoral thesis was on ‘Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott’.

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Career

In 1991, he became the editor of ‘The New Republic’ magazine. He helped to expand the magazine’s political coverage to include broader cultural issues and popularized the publication. He also kindled considerable controversy with his outspokenness.

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In 1994, he published excerpts from a controversial book called ‘The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life’ by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray which was considered racist by the editorial staff at the ‘The New Republic’ magazine and they threatened to resign.

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His relations with the staff deteriorated a lot after this incident and he ultimately left the magazine in 1996. During his tenure as the editor he had presided over 250 issues of ‘The New Republic’ and helped to grow the magazine’s circulation to well over 100,000.

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He is best known as the political blogger who founded the blog andrewsullivan.com's Daily Dish. The blog marked the beginning of the era of the political blog and made him an internationally famous blogger.

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Major Work