Personal bio of charles krauthammer

American journalist (1950–2018)

Charles Krauthammer (; March 13, 1950 – June 21, 2018) was an American political columnist.

A moderate liberal who turned independent conservative as a political pundit, Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for his columns in The Washington Post in 1987. His weekly column was syndicated to more than 400 publications worldwide.^[3][4] While in his first year studying medicine at Harvard Medical School, Krauthammer became permanently paralyzed from the waist down after a diving board accident that severed his spinal cord at cervical spinal nerve 5.^[5] After spending 14 months recovering in a hospital, he returned to medical school, graduating to become a psychiatrist involved in the creation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III in 1980.^[6][7] He joined the Carter administration in 1978 as a director of psychiatric research,^[8] eventually be