Author

Books by Dexter Filkins

Dexter Filkins is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former correspondent for the New York Times, where he covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for more than a decade. He has won the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Livingston Award for international reporting. The Forever War won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2008. He is also the author of essays and longform investigations into political violence, terrorism, and foreign policy. He teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.