Author

Books by William Finnegan

William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987 and has reported from conflict zones across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Barbarian Days, published in 2015 after decades in progress, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography in 2016. His other books include Cold New World, a portrait of American youth in poverty, and Crossing the Line, about race and education in South Africa. He lives in New York, where he still surfs Ocean Beach when the swell allows.