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STEVEN A. HOLMES is an editor in the Washington Bureau of The New York Times where he supervises coverage of a wide range of issues. Prior to becoming an editor, he was a reporter in the bureau for 11 years, during which time he covered race and demographic issues, Congress, the Presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan and H. Ross Perot, and the State Department. He is the author of "Ron Brown: An Uncommon Life," a biography of the late Commerce Secretary and Chairman of the Democratic Party. He wrote on the articles and helped edit many of the others in the Times' 15-part series "How Race Is Lived In America," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Prior to joining the Times, Holmes was a national correspondent for Time Magazine, working in the magazine's Chicago, Los Angeles, London and Washington bureaus. While at Time, he covered national and local politics, agricultural issues, sports, including the 1984 Olympics, international finance, the Supreme Court and the Justice Department. Holmes began his journalism career as a police reporter for the Herald Statesman in Yonkers, NY. He also worked for United Press International in Dallas and the Atlanta Constitution, in Atlanta, GA. Born in Brooklyn, Holmes grew up in Mt. Vernon, NY. He is a graduate of City College of New York and the Michele Clark Memorial Program for Minority Journalists, which was begun by the late Robert Maynard and was the precursor to the Institute for Journalism Education. He put himself through school by driving a New York City taxicab at night, and still insists that this was the second best job he's ever had.
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