Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse is an American journalist and author who has covered the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times for more than 30 years. She has written a number of books about the Supreme Court and its role in American culture and politics, including The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction and Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey.

Greenhouse was born in 1938 in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Yale University, where she majored in history and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1959. She went on to the Harvard Law School, obtaining her J.D. in 1966. After law school, Greenhouse worked as a law clerk for Chief Judge J. Joseph Smith of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

In 1968, Greenhouse joined The New York Times as a reporter and was assigned to cover labor law. In 1978, she became a Supreme Court correspondent for the paper, a role she has held ever since. In 1981, she won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting, becoming the first woman (and first journalist) to receive the award for coverage of the Supreme Court. In 2008, she was awarded the Gold Medal for lifetime achievement from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Throughout her time as a Supreme Court correspondent, Greenhouse has written extensively and extensively on issues related to the Court and its rulings. She has written regular columns for The New York Review of Books and The American Prospect, as well as for The New York Times. She has also authored a number of books on the Supreme Court, including The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction (2008) and Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey (2005). Both of these books provide an overview of the Supreme Court and how it works, as well as taking a closer look at a particular Supreme Court justice and his work while on the bench.

Greenhouse has also been active in other spheres outside of journalism. In 2008, she was awarded a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she was granted a year of research and writing. Greenhouse has also served as the president of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States.

Greenhouse has been widely praised for her incisive and authoritative coverage of the Supreme Court. Her writings have earned her numerous awards, including the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, and several honorary degrees from universities around the country. Her work on the Supreme Court has also been recognized in many other ways, including the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation's Profile in Courage Award in 2002, and an honorary doctor of public service degree from Colby College in 2008.

Linda Greenhouse has had a profound impact on the way that Supreme Court cases are understood in America today. Her decades of experience and expertise, combined with her extensive writing on the Court, make her one of the most authoritative and influential voices on the subject. Her books are essential reading for anyone looking to better understand the workings of the Supreme Court and its role in American law.