Andrew Ross Sorkin is known as an American journalist and author. He is most famous for his work at The New York Times and hosting Squawk Box on CNBC.
Andrew Ross Sorkin was born on February 19, 1977 in New York. His father, Joan Ross Sorkin is a playwright and his mother Laurence T. Sorkin works as a Partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, a law firm.
In 1995, he graduated from Scarsdale High School. He got his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in May 1999. Before his graduation, he started writing in an unusual situation in for The New York Times.
Andrew Ross Sorkin is married to Pilar Jenny Queen. He along with his wife is living happily and has had no signs of divorce. Both of them together have two children. He loves to play golf and chess in his spare time when he isn't busy with family matters.
Andrew Ross Sorkin serves as a co-host of Squawk Box, an early morning program telecasted on CNBC. He also works at The New York Times as a financial columnist and at DealBook as the editor-at-large. DealBook was founded by him and published by The New York Times. He worked for Business Week in 1996.
During his career, he revealed many news pieces about mergers and acquisitions such as when Chase acquired JPMorgan and Hewlett-Packard's acquired Compaq. He also covered the news of the hostile takeover of Mannesmann by Vodafone's $183 billion, which is the largest bid ever.
He also wrote a book called "Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves” which highlighted the incidents of the 2008 global financial crisis. The book has won many accolades such as the Best Business Book award by the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award. The book was nominated twice, once for Samuel Johnson Prize in 2010 and another time as Business Book of the Year Award for 2010 Financial Times. A movie based on his book was produced in 2011 by HBO, and he participated as a co-producer of the movie. The movie was nominated for 11 categories at Emmy Awards.
In 2004, he was awarded Gerald Loeb Award for revealing information about the sale of the personal computer business of IBM to Lenovo. He was also selected as a finalist for DealBook column in the Commentary category. For revealing major news in 2005 and 2006, he won the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award. He was known by a new name ‘Young Global Leader’ in 2007 by the World Economic Forum. Vanity Fair in 2008-2009, has marked his name in the "Next Establishment" list. He was also named in the Directorship ‘100’, which is the list of the board of directors of the nation and are very influential people.
He has published close to 71 articles in his lifetime. His net worth is estimated to be in the thousands of dollars.
| Birth Date: | 19 Feb, 1977 |
| Age: | 43 yrs |
| Occupations: | Journalist Author Writer Screenwriter |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | New York City |
| Education: | Cornell University |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American journalist and author |
| Twitter Id: | Andrewrsorkin |
| Net Worth 2021: | 10 million |
