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Thomas L. Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third Pulitzer for the New York Times. He became the paper's foreign-affairs columnist in 1995. Previously, he served as chief economic correspondent in the Washington bureau and before that he was the chief White House correspondent. In 2005, Tom Friedman was elected as a member of the Pullitzer Prize Board. Tom Friedman's latest book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century was released in April 2005 and won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. In 2004, he was awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for lifetime acheivement and the honorary title, Order of the British Empire (OBE), by Queen Elizabeth II. Friedman's book, From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989), won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1989 and The Lexus and the Olive Tree (2000), won the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best non-fiction book on foreign policy and has been published in 27 languages. Tom Friedman also wrote Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism (2002) and the text accompanying Micha Bar-Am's book Israel: A Photobiography. Tom Friedman joined the Times in 1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in 1982. In 1984 he transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem where he served as Israel bureau chief until 1988. Tom Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel).