Karl Taro Greenfeld

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karl Taro Greenfeld (born 1964 in Kobe, Japan) is a journalist and author known primarily for his articles on life in modern Asia. He is currently editor-at-large at Sports Illustrated.

The son of an American father and a Japanese mother, he grew up in Los Angeles and went to college in New York, graduating from Sarah Lawrence in 1987. A regular contributor to publications such as GQ and Vogue, Greenfeld was the managing editor of Tokyo Journal before becoming the editor of Time Asia from 2002 - 2004. He is the author of two travel books about Asia -- Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation and Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia -- as well as a recent book about the breakout of the SARS virus, China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic.

He is the son of writers Josh Greenfeld and Fumiko Kometani, and his younger brother Noah was the subject of the elder Greenfeld's "Noah" trilogy of books (A Child Called Noah, A Place for Noah, and A Client Called Noah); these books also indirectly chronicle Greenfeld's childhood as well.