Paul Starr

writer, 1984 Pulitzer Prize

Paul Starr is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and co-founder and co-editor of *The American Prospect*. At Princeton he holds the Stuart Chair in Communications and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. Professor Starr has written extensively on American society, politics, and both domestic and foreign policy. He received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and Bancroft Prize in American History for *The Social Transformation of American Medicine* and the 2005 Goldsmith Book Prize for *The Creation of the Media*. His most recent book *Freedom's Power*, on the history and promise of liberalism, is now out in paperback. In 1990, with Robert Kuttner and Robert Reich, he co-founded* The American Prospect*, a liberal magazine about politics, policy, and ideas. Published quarterly in its early years, the magazine now appears monthly in print as well as online. A short book by Professor Starr, *The Logic of Health-Care Reform* (1992) laid out the case for a system of universal health insurance and managed competition. During 1993 he served as a senior advisor at the White House in the formulation of the Clinton health plan Sandra Starr, Paul Starr's first wife, died in 1998. Now married to Ann Baynes Coiro, he has four children and three step-children.