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 college, … 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 … 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 Fail. He also won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers 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 … See more