Jonathan Freedman

Jonathan Freedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and mentor with more than thirty years’ experience reporting from Central America, Mexico, and the US border. His six-year series of investigative editorials for the San Diego Tribune was influential in the passage of the landmark 1986 US immigration reforms that authorized 2.7 million undocumented immigrants to become permanent legal residents.

My new novel, THE LAST BRAZIL OF BENJAMIN EAST, debuts Amazon.com. This novel was 30 years in the making!

Praise for The Last Brazil of Benjamin East

★★★★★ "Tender-hearted and provocative from beginning to end, The Last Brazil of Benjamin East is an engaging read and destined to be an award winner."

-- San Francisco Book Review


"A spirited, hopeful novel that serves as a reminder that

change is always possible."

-- Kirkus Reviews

"The story is engaging and Benjamin is unforgettable: a complicated, and sympathetic character who captured and kept my interest. The prose is clear, smart, funny, and knowing. The insistent search for meaning shines through."

-- Robert Koppel, author of Why Love?


"Jonathan Freedman is "a beautiful prose stylist...a very provocative writer."


-- Patricia A. O'Connell, Commonweal

"A big-hearted, compelling, zany, funny, fast-paced novel."

-- Sara Houghteling, author, Pictures At An Exhibition

"The Last Brazil of Benjamin East is a deliciously expressive road novel that lures readers into the boundless journey of time, on which the past is read in light of the possible future, and the present is imagined anew, inspiring us to consider ourselves the authors of our lives."

- Steven Mayers, Professor of English at the City College of San Francisco