Jonathan Saul Freedland (born February 25, 1967) is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian and a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View. He was named 'Columnist of the Year' in the 2002 What the Papers Say awards and in 2008 was awarded the David Watt Prize for Journalism, in recognition of his essay ‘Bush’s Amazing Achievement’, published in The New York Review of Books. Freedland also writes best-selling thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
Educated at University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London, and at Wadham College at the University of Oxford, he started his 'Fleet Street' career at the short-lived Sunday Correspondent. In 1990 he joined the BBC, working as a news reporter across radio and television, appearing most often on The World at One and Today on Radio 4. In the summer of 1992, he was awarded the Laurence Stern fellowship on the Washington Post, serving as a staff writer on the national news section. He became The Guardian’s Washington Correspondent in 1993, staying in that post until 1997 when he returned to London as an editorial writer and columnist.
Between 2002 and 2004, Freedland was an occasional columnist for The Daily Mirror and from 2005 to 2007 he wrote a weekly column for the London Evening Standard. He has also been published in The Washington Post, Newsweek and The New Republic magazines and appears regularly on radio and television. In 2008, he broadcast a two-part series for BBC Radio 4 - British Jews and the Dream of Zion - as well as two TV documentaries for BBC 4: How to be a Good President and President Hollywood. He is the son of Michael Freedland, a biographer and journalist.
Freedland has published six books: two non-fiction works and four thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. In 1998 Freedland's first book, Bring Home the Revolution: The case for a British Republic, argued that Britain should reclaim the revolutionary ideals it exported to America in the 18th century, and undergo a constitutional and cultural overhaul. The book won a Somerset Maugham Award for non-fiction and was later adapted into a two-part series for BBC Television. In 2005 he published Jacob's Gift, a memoir telling the stories of three generations of his own family as well as exploring wider questions of identity and belonging.
The Righteous Men, published in 2006, is a religious thriller published under the Bourne 'nom de plume'. The book made a brief appearance in the gossip columns when a damning review by Michael Dibdin, originally written for The Guardian, appeared instead in The Times. The Guardian's ombudsman discovered that when Dibdin originally submitted his review to The Guardian he offered to withdraw it if it were deemed too awkward – an offer the Editor Alan Rusbridger accepted.
In June 2006, The Righteous Men was picked as a Richard and Judy Summer Read and soon rose to Number One on the Sunday Times bestsellers’ list. It stayed on the list for several months and has now sold more than half a million copies in the UK; it has been translated into 30 languages.
The book was followed a year later by another Sam Bourne title, The Last Testament, this time set against the backdrop of the Middle East peace process, and in 2008 by The Final Reckoning, based on the true story of the Avengers: a group of Holocaust survivors who sought revenge against their Nazi persecutors. The Final Reckoning reached Number Two in the Sunday Times bestseller list. The Chosen One, the fourth thriller by Sam Bourne, was published in the UK in 2010. In April 2010, The Bookseller reported that HarperCollins had signed up Freedland for three more Bourne books, describing the author as “the UK’s bestselling thriller writer with sales of well over one million…in less than five years.”
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