Manuel roig franzia biography

Manuel Roig-Franzia is a feature writer in The Washington Post's Style section, where he profiles national figures in the worlds of politics, the law and the.
Manuel Roig-Franzia was born in Spain and is a writer for The Washington Post Style section.
Manuel Roig-Franzia has been a reporter at The Washington Post for 22 years.

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The Rise of Marco Rubio

“The definitive account of the senator’s career.” --The New Republic

"[The Rise of Marco Rubio] will be an indispensable Rubio guidebook for the amateur political junkie as well as the pundit cramming for a quick hit on cable. Roig-Franzia is relentlessly balanced and fair.” --Washington Post

“A rewarding read, giving valuable insight into this young man in a hurry.” --The Daily Beast

“As Florida bureau chief for The Washington Post, Mr. Roig-Franzia knows the Miami fishbowl and the Tallahassee toilet. He serves up very good political journalism, the type of fare our republic needs in the political diet.” --The Washington Times

“Roig-Franzia deftly constructs a compelling, readable narrative of Rubio’s life and career. More important, he does an outstanding job placing that life in historical context—both American and Cuban. His depiction of south Florida’s Cuban community is particularly engrossing, and leaves the reader with a sense of why that community is unique among American Latinos, especially in its political attach

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http://manuelroigfranzia.com/ Manuel Roig-Franzia is the author of Simon and Schuster's "The Rise of Marco Rubio." ("El Ascenso de Marco Rubio" is the title of the Spanish-language edition.) Roig-Franzia is a writer in The Washington Post's Style section. He writes long-form pieces on a broad range of subjects, exploring politics, power and the culture of Washington, as well as profiling major political figures and authors. In more than 11 years at The Post, Roig-Franzia has served as bureau chief in Miami for the National staff and in Mexico City for the Foreign staff. He's covered U.S. and international presidential campaigns, the January 2010 Haiti earthquake and more than a dozen major hurricanes, including Katrina. His wanderings have led him into the domain of drug cartels, down the streets of Havana and El Paso, into the food stalls of Mexico City markets and through the Everglades. He's been just as likely to find himself in a governor's office as strolling through the haze of barbecue smoke at "Uncle Earl's Hog Dog Tr

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Manuel Roig-Franzia

Manuel Roig-Franzia has been a reporter at The Washington Post for 22 years. He roamed the Southeastern United States as the paper’s Miami bureau chief and later traveled throughout Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean as the paper’s Mexico City bureau chief. He’s now based in Washington, DC, where he writes long-form profiles and in-depth investigative and feature articles on a wide-range of topics of national interest for the features section, front page and Sunday magazine. He’s reported on countless momentous events - everything from Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake - to major courtroom sagas. His profile subjects have included significant figures in the arts, including acclaimed novelists E.L. Doctorow and Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and in the dark arts — Roger Stone.

He travels widely in the U.S. and abroad, and has written profiles, features and biographical pieces on a variety of sinners and saints, and on candidates in every presidential campaign since 2004 He’s also a frequent contributor of fiction and non-fiction book reviews.