Clymer, Adam 1937-

Adam Clymer (b. New York City, April 27, 1937), chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times and author of Edward M. Kennedy: a Biography (Morrow, 1999). After graduating from Walden School in 1954, Clymer earned his B.A. from Harvard University in 1958 and did post-graduate work at the University of Cape Town, South Africa on a Frank Knox Fellowship in 1959. Clymer began his journalistic career in 1960, working as a reporter for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. After time at the Baltimore Sun and The New York Daily News, Clymer joined the staff of the New York Times as a reporter and editor in 1977. He later became the Washington editor and in 1999, began serving as the chief Washington correspondent. In 1981, Clymer co-authored Reagan: The Man, the President (MacMillan, 1981) with fellow Times journalists Hedrick Smith, Leonard Silk, Robert Lindsey, and Richard Burt, contributing chapters on Reagan's entry into politics in 1964 and his successful presidential bid in 1980. In 1993, Clymer was the recipient of the Everett Dirksen Award, presented by the Dirksen Congressional Research Center for distinguished reporting on Congress.