![]() ![]() Part coming-of-age story, part thriller, part cultural study, Finnegan’s vivid memoir explores the. In his deeply lyrical self-portrait Barbarian Days, Finnegan chronicles his lifelong adventures from a young man chasing waves all over the world to becoming a distinguished writer and war reporter. Finnegan is the author of five books: “ Crossing the Line,” which was selected by the Times Book Review as one of the ten best nonfiction books of the year “ Dateline Soweto” “ A Complicated War” “ Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country,” which was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and “ Barbarian Days,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2016. New Yorker writer William Finnegan leads a counter life as an excessively compulsive surfer. His report from Sudan, “ The Invisible War,” won a Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club, and he received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for “ Leasing the Rain.” His article “ The Countertraffickers” won the Overseas Press Club’s Madeline Dane Ross Award for International Reporting, and his report from Mexico, “ Silver or Lead,” won the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Spiers Benjamin Award. Brecher Award for Achievement in the Field of Media his article “ The Unwanted” the Sidney Hillman Prize for Magazine Reporting. His article “ Deep East Texas” won the 1994 Edward M. Reporting from Africa, Central America, South America, Europe, the Balkans, Mexico, and Australia, as well as from the United States, he has twice received the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism and twice been a National Magazine Award finalist. William Finnegan has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1984 and a staff writer since 1987. ![]()
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