Dexter Filkins
| Dexter Filkins | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Dexter Price Filkins May 24, 1961 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
St Anthony's College, Oxford University (MPhil) Univ. of Florida (BA 1983) |
| Occupation | journalist, author |
| Notable work | The Forever War |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize 2009 New York Times – International Reporting |
Dexter Price Filkins (born May 24, 1961) is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and he won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been referred to as "the premier combat journalist of his generation". He currently writes for The New Yorker.
Filkins received a B.A. in political science from the University of Florida in 1983, and a Master of Philosophy in international relations from Oxford University (1984), where he was a student of St Antony's College.
Before joining the Times in September 2000, Filkins was New Delhi bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times for three years. He reported from the New York Times' Baghdad bureau in Iraq from 2003 to 2006.
In 2006–2007, Filkins was at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship; in 2007–2008, he was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Filkins' book, The Forever War (2008), chronicling his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, was a New York Times best-seller.The Forever War won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best nonfiction book of 2008, and was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by, among others, the New York Times,Amazon.com, the Washington Post,Time Magazine, and the Boston Globe.
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