- Max Frankel was born on April 3, 1930 in Gera, Thuringia, Germany. He was married to Joyce Purnick and Tobia Brown. He died on March 23, 2025 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesJoyce Purnick(December 1988 - March 23, 2025) (his death)Tobia Brown(1956 - 1987) (her death, 3 children)
- Children
- Longtime executive editor of the New York Times, he is the father of David Frankel.
- He won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Richard Nixon 's trip to China in 1972.
- Himself and his family fled Nazi Germany in 1938. They crossed into the Soviet Union, where Jacob Frankel, his father, was arrested on suspicion of being a German spy and was given the choice of Soviet citizenship or a sentence of hard labor in Siberia.
- He won the George Polk Memorial Award for "best daily newspaper interpretation" of foreign affairs in 1970.
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