Inga Saffron

Inga Saffron (born November 9, 1957) is an American journalist and architecture critic. She won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism while writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer.[1]

Inga Saffron
Inga Saffron in October 2013
Born	(1957-11-09) November 9, 1957
Occupation	Journalist

Biography

Saffron was raised in Levittown, New York and attended New York University.[2] She studied abroad in France for one year, then decided not to return to school and moved to Dublin. In Ireland, she wrote for many local publications and worked as a freelancer with Newsweek.[3] Upon returning to the United States, Saffron wrote for the Courier-News of New Jersey.[1] She joined The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1984. As the Inquirer's Moscow correspondent from 1994 to 1998, Saffron covered the Yugoslav Wars and First Chechen War.[4] She has written an architecture criticism column titled "Changing Skyline" since 1999.[2]

Career

Saffron still writes for The Philadelphia Inquirer, which she joined in 1985 as a suburban reporter. She spent five years in Eastern Europe as a correspondent for the Inquirer. In 1999, Saffron started her "Changing Skyline" column for the Inquirer. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2012.[5][6]

Awards

Since becoming The Philadelphia Inquirer's resident architecture critic in 1999, Saffron has won many awards for her insightful and pointed critiques of architecture, planning, and urbanism in her city. Saffron won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2014 after receiving nominations for the prize in 2004, 2008, and 2009.[5] She is also the 2010 recipient of the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award.[7] Saffron was one of two architecture critics to be honored with the 2018 Vincent Scully Prize, awarded by the National Building Museum; her fellow honoree was Robert Campbell (journalist), who is architecture critic of The Boston Globe.[8]

Partial Bibliography

• 2002: Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-0623-4
• 2020: Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-1978817074

Marriage and family

She is married to writer Ken Kalfus,[9] with whom she has a daughter, Sky.[10]

References

1. "Inga Saffron: Pulitzer Prize Biography". Columbia University. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
2. Moran, Robert (April 16, 2014). "Inquirer's Saffron, critic of the built environment, wins Pulitzer". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
3. Rys, Richard (February 26, 2008). "Why Are Men Who Build Skyscrapers Afraid of This Woman?". Philadelphia. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
4. "Critic's Choice". architectmagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
5. "The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism: Inga Saffron of The Philadelphia Inquirer". The Pulitzer Prizes. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
6. "Alumni Q+A: Inga Saffron LF '12 | Harvard GSD Grounded Visionaries". www.groundedvisionaries.org. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
7. "Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award". The Urban Communication Foundation. The Urban Communication Foundation. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
8. "2018 Scully Prize: Essential Reading". National Building Museum. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
9. Beans, Bruce E. (April 4, 2000). "Capturing Russia". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
10. Greg Miller (December 11, 1996). "Russia's Undertested Children Face Lead Poisoning Menace". The Moscow Times. Archived from the original on April 19, 2014.

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