Jodi Kantor

Jodi Kantor is a The New York Times correspondent and author of the best-selling book The Obamas, published by Little Brown in January 2012. She has been writing about Barack and Michelle Obama, along with numerous other political figures, since 2007. After growing up in New York City, Kantor moved to Holmdel Township, New Jersey where she graduated from Holmdel High School. Kantor graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1996. She was selected for and participated on the prestigious Dorot Fellowship in Israel from 1996-97 and later served as a New York City Urban Fellow.. Later, she attended Harvard Law School for one semester, taking a leave to work at Slate, where she became an editor. After corresponding with New York...