b. July 30, 1955, Poughkeepsie, New York
B.A. in History, Pomona College in Claremont, California, 1977
M.A. in Modern History, Oxford, 1980
grandfather H. Richard Niebuhr
grand uncle Reinhold Niebuhr
resides in New York with wife and son
Supple Memorial Award for religion news writing in 1988, and the Templeton Religion writer of the Year Award, runner up, in 1987
Gustav Niebuhr in Christianity Today
Gustav Niebuhr in Willamette Week