Dexter Filkins
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 won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been called "the premier combat journalist of his generation". He currently writes for The New Yorker.
Dexter Filkins | |
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| Born | Dexter Price Filkins May 24, 1961 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Alma mater | St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil) Univ. of Florida (BA 1983) |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, author |
| Notable work | The Forever War |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize 2009 The New York Times – International Reporting |
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