He was drafted in 1951, during the Korean War, and assigned to the US Marine Corps. He applied to enter the Civil Service and was eventually accepted, moving to Washington DC. He worked at various jobs to support himself, including in a machine shop and as a delivery man for Western Union. Sowell went to Stuyvesant High School, but dropped out at 17 because of financial difficulties and a deteriorating home environment. He moved to Harlem, New York City with his mother's sister (whom he believed was his mother) his father had died before he was born.
Sowell was born in North Carolina, where, he recounted in his autobiography, A Personal Odyssey, his encounters with Caucasians were so limited he didn't believe that "yellow" was a hair color. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective.
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books.
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