Dexter Filkins

Dexter Filkins
Born	1961
Occupation	Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
Nationality	American

Dexter Price Filkins (born c. 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 Prize in 2009 as part of a team of New York Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been referred to as "the premier combat journalist of his generation".^[1] He currently writes for The New Yorker.

Filkins' book, The Forever War, is about his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was published September 16, 2008 and was a New York Times best-seller.^[2] The Forever War won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best non-fiction book of 2008,^[3] and was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by among others The New York Times,^[4] Amazon.com,^[5] the Washington Post,^[6] Time Magazine^[7] and the Boston Globe.^[8]

Prior to joining The New York 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.

Filkins received the 2004 George Polk Award for War Reporting given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. He was cited for his reports from the assault on Fallujah, Iraq, in November 2004, when the company he travelled with lost a quarter of its men in eight days.^[9]

In 2006–07, Filkins was at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship; and in 2007-2008, he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

In 2010, his reporting in The New York Times from Afghanistan and Iraq, along with that of the photographer Tyler Hicks and the reporter C.J. Chivers, was selected by New York University as one of the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade.

Filkins joined The New Yorker in December 2010.^[10][11]

Personal

Filkins received a B.A. in political science from the University of Florida in 1983 and an M. Phil in International Relations from Oxford University^[12]

References

1. ^ Bennett, Philip (15 March 2009). "What We Don't Know About Iraq". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031304300.html. Retrieved 10 October 2011. 
2. ^ New York Times Bestsellers, Hardcover Nonfiction
3. ^ National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners (2008)
4. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2008". New York Times. December 3, 2008. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/10Best-t.html. Retrieved May 30, 2011. 
5. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Best-2008-Books-Holidays-Seasonal/b?ie=UTF8&node=1239030011
6. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/gifts/best-books-of-2008/
7. ^ http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864143_1864144,00.html
8. ^ Kenney, Michael (December 7, 2008). "Getting the goods - nonfiction: A guide to the most memorable titles of 2008, from entertaining to inspiring". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/12/07/getting_the_goods___nonfiction/. Retrieved May 30, 2011. 
9. ^ "George Polk Awards for Journalism press release". Long Island University. http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/press/2004.html. Retrieved November 22, 2006. 
10. ^ "Contributors: Dexter Filkins". New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/dexter_filkins/search?contributorName=Dexter%20Filkins. Retrieved May 30, 2011. 
11. ^ Koblin, John (December 3, 2010). "Switching Sides". WWDMedia. http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-switching-sides-3397374?navSection=media-news&toc_preselected=65#/article/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-switching-sides-3397374?page=2. Retrieved May 30, 2011. 
12. ^ About Filkins

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Dexter Filkins on Charlie Rose
• Dexter Filkins at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Dexter Filkins in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Dexter Filkins collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• In-depth profile of Ahmad Chalabi by Filkins New York Times
• My Long War Published: August 22, 2008 by Dexter Filkins for The New York Times Magazine
• long Q&A with the Washington Post's Express about "The Forever War"
• Authors@Google YouTube video, 1 hour talk with Dexter Filkins, Sept. 24, 2008

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