Dexter Filkins | |
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.jpg) Filkins on the USS Rafael Peralta in 2023 | |
| 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 |
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".[1] He currently writes for The New Yorker.
- ^ Bennett, Philip (15 March 2009). "What We Don't Know About Iraq". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 October 2011.