Dexter Filkins

Dexter Filkins
Filkins on the USS Rafael Peralta in 2023
Born
Dexter Price Filkins

(1961-05-24) May 24, 1961 (age 63)
Alma materSt Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil)
Univ. of Florida (BA 1983)
Occupation(s)journalist, author
Notable workThe Forever War
AwardsPulitzer 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.

  1. ^ Bennett, Philip (15 March 2009). "What We Don't Know About Iraq". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 October 2011.