Sorkin was born in New York City, the son of Joan Ross Sorkin, a playwright, and Laurence T. Sorkin, a partner at the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Sorkin graduated from Scarsdale … See more

Journalist
Sorkin first joined The New York Times as a student intern during his senior year in high school. He also worked for the paper while he was in … See more

In July 2011, Sorkin became a co-anchor on CNBC's Squawk Box in addition to his duties at The New York Times. Sorkin has appeared on See more

Sorkin's book on the Wall Street banking crisis, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, was published by Viking on October 20, 2009. It won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for … See more

Sorkin shared the Gerald Loeb Award in 2005 for Deadline Writing and earned another for Business Book in 2010 for his book Too Big to … See more

In the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, called "Granite State," Sorkin is briefly referenced. He is said to have written an op-ed in The New York Times accusing fictional entrepreneurs Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz of making donations to drug rehabilitation … See more

Sorkin married Pilar Jenny Queen on June 9, 2007.
Sorkin has a coloboma in his left eye that sometimes makes it appear as if he has two See more