Jonathan Foreman

Who is Jonathan Foreman?

Jonathan Foreman is an Anglo-American journalist and film critic.

He is the son of Academy-Award winning screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman, who moved to England in order to work after being blacklisted by Hollywood movie studio bosses during the hysteria of the McCarthy era. He is the elder brother of the best-selling biographer Amanda Foreman.

Foreman was born in London, and educated at St Paul's School before reading Modern History at Cambridge University. After working as an editorial assistant for the International Herald Tribune, Foreman received his J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He became a member of the New York Bar in 1991 and worked for the Manhattan firm, Shearman and Sterling. After several years at the bar, he described his decision to leave the law in a widely cited critique of New York company culture, for the magazine City Journal.

Foreman then traveled widely in Asia, winning the South Asian Journalists Association first prize for reporting in 1997 for the City Journal piece, "Bombay on the Hudson".