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fox butterfield lancaster , pennsylvania 1939 journalism , non-fiction fox butterfield.jpg fox butterfield
 fox butterfield journalist , author harvard university
fox butterfield

fox butterfield -lrb- born 1939 in lancaster , pennsylvania -rrb- is an american journalist who spent much of his 30-year career reporting for `` the new york times '' .
butterfield served as `` times '' bureau chief in saigon , tokyo , hong kong , beijing , and boston and as a correspondent in washington and new york .
during that time , he was awarded the pulitzer prize as a member of `` the new york times '' team that published the pentagon papers , the pentagon 's secret history of the vietnam war , in 1971 .
butterfield won a 1983 national book award for nonfiction for `` china : alive in the bitter sea '' .
he also wrote `` all god 's children : the bosket family and the american tradition of violence '' -lrb- 1995 -rrb- about the child criminal willie bosket .
in 1990 , butterfield wrote an article on the election of the first african-american president of the `` harvard law review '' , future president of the united states barack obama .
butterfield is the eponym for `` the butterfield effect '' , used to refer to a person who `` makes a statement that is ludicrous on its face , yet it reveals what the speaker truly believes '' , especially if expressing a supposed paradox when a causal relationship should be obvious .
the particular article that sparked this was titled `` more inmates , despite drop in crime '' by butterfield in the `` new york times '' on november 8 , 2004 .
