children status credits birth_date gender spouse article_title name occupation
sarah , rebecca and amanda married '' walking guide '' -lrb- novel -rrb- the new york times '' , '' a 16 march 1947 male christiane cowell , susan cullinan alan cowell
 alan cowell journalist , novelist
alan cowell

alan s. cowell -lrb- born 16 march 1947 -rrb- is a british journalist and a correspondent for `` the new york times .
`` since 2008 he has been senior correspondent for nytimes.com based in paris '' .
cowell began his journalism career as a reporter for british newspapers and the swiss broadcasting corporation .
he joined reuters in 1972 and the new york times in 1981 .
his reporting has covered turkey , the middle east , central and southern africa , greece , egypt , italy , germany and the united kingdom .
in 1985 , cowell won the george polk award and was nominated for a pulitzer prize for foreign reporting .
