Peter T. Kilborn

Peter Kilborn worked for The New York Times for 30 years as a national correspondent, foreign correspondent and editor based in New York, London, and Washington, D.C. with shorter stints in Miami, Rio, Riyadh. With Business Week before the Times, he was a correspondent in Paris and Los Angeles and an editor in New York. He grew up in Providence, R.I., graduated from Trinity College in Hartford and the Columbia School of Journalism and was a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Among his major projects for the Times was a year of reporting on class in America that became part of an award-winning book for the Times, "Class Matters." He left the the paper to tackle an unexpected dimension of class--corporate breadwinners and families who, like Kilborn years before, shuttled from city to city, country to country as they advanced in their jobs in the fast-growing global economy. They called themselves "Relos," for relocatees. Their stories of achievement, rootlessness and loneliness became the gist of his book, "Next Stop, Reloville: Life inside America's New Rootless Professional Class." He and his wife, parents of two grown children, live outside Washington.