Q:Facts: - birth name: donald oberdorfer jr. - spouse: laura oberdorfer - birth date: 28 may 1931 - name: don oberdorfer - occupation: journalist , author , professor - death place: washington , d.c. - birth place: atlanta , georgia , united states - alma mater: princeton university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of don oberdorfer .
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donald oberdorfer , jr. -lrb- may 28 , 1931 -- july 23 , 2015 -rrb- was an american professor at the paul h. nitze school of advanced international studies -lrb- sais -rrb- at johns hopkins university with a specialty in korea , and was a journalist for 38 years , 25 of them with '' the washington post '' .he is the author of five books and several academic papers .his book , '' senator mansfield : the extraordinary life of a great american statesman and diplomat '' , won the d.b. hardeman prize in 2003 .