Melanie Kirkpatrick is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former deputy editor of the Wall
Street Journal editorial page. She is the author of Thanksgiving: The Holiday ...view moreMelanie Kirkpatrick is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former deputy editor of the Wall
Street Journal editorial page. She is the author of Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the
American Experience and Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad.
She has lived in Tokyo, Toronto, Hong Kong and Manhattan and now resides in rural Connecticut.view less