Jeffrey Simpson Biography

Jeffrey Simpson The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes -- the Governor-General's award for non-fiction book writing the National Magazine Award for political writing and the National Newspaper Award for column writing (twice). He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism. In January 2000 he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. Born in New York Jeffrey came to Canada when he was 10 years old and studied at the University of Toronto Schools Queen's University and the London School of Economics. In 1972-73 he received a parliamentary internship scholarship in Ottawa. A year later he joined The Globe and Mail. His career with the newspaper began at City Hall in Toronto and with coverage of Quebec politics. In 1977 he became a member of the paper's Ottawa bureau and 18 months later he was named The Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau chief. From 1981-1983 Jeffrey served as The Globe's European correspondent based in London England. He began writing his national affairs column in January 1984.

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