DAVID BROOKS, author/ny times columnist

David Brooks’ column on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times started in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.”  He is the author of “Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There” and “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense,” both published by Simon & Schuster.

Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years.  His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russian, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of this book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal’s movie critic.

Mr. Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983, and worked as a police reporter for the City News Bureau, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times.

He is also a frequent analyst on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and the “Diane Rehm Show.” His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, the TLS, Commentary, The Public Interest and many other magazines.  He is editor of the anthology “Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing” (Vintage Books).  David Brooks will be a featured speaker at the 2010 Festival of the Arts BOCA.