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Evan Osnos
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Osnos at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in 2011
Born
Evan Lionel Richard Osnos

December 24, 1976 (1976-12-24) (age 47)
London, England
NationalityAmerican
Other names欧逸文
Alma mater Harvard University (AB)
OccupationJournalist
Employer The New Yorker
SpouseSarabeth Berman
Children2
Parents
RelativesKatherine Osnos Sanford (Sister)
Awards National Book Award for Nonfiction
Website https://www.evanosnos.com

Evan Lionel Richard Osnos (born December 24, 1976) is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, best known for his coverage of politics and foreign affairs, in the United States and China. [1] [2] [3] His 2014 book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, won the National Book Award for nonfiction. [4]

Contents

In October 2020 he published a biography of Joe Biden, entitled Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now. [5] In September 2021, he published Wildland: The Making of America's Fury, about profound cultural and political changes occurring between September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021, as evidenced by the turmoil of 2020.

Early life and education

Osnos was born in London, when his parents, Susan (née Sherer) Osnos and Peter L.W. Osnos, were visiting from Moscow, where his father was assigned as a correspondent for The Washington Post . [6]

Osnos' father was a Jewish refugee from Poland born in India when his family was en route to the U.S. [7] His mother was the daughter of diplomat Albert W. Sherer Jr. [8]

Osnos was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated from Greenwich High School in 1994. [9] [10] He then attended Harvard University, where in 1998 he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in government. [11]

Career

In the summer of 1999, Osnos joined the Chicago Tribune as a metro reporter, and, later, a national and foreign correspondent. [12] He was based in New York at the time of the September 11 attacks. In 2002, he was assigned to the Middle East, where he covered the Iraq War and reported from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, and elsewhere. In 2005, he became the China correspondent. [13] He was a guest on the Colbert Report in 2007 and 2011 to discuss China's changes. [14] [15] He was part of a Chicago Tribune team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. [16]

Osnos joined The New Yorker in September 2008 and served as the magazine's China correspondent until 2013. Osnos has contributed to the NPR radio show This American Life and the PBS television show Frontline . [17] [18] As The New Yorker's China correspondent, Evan maintained a regular blog called "Letter from China" [19] and wrote articles about China's young neoconservatives, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and the Wenzhou train crash. According to The Washington Post, "In the pages of the New Yorker, Evan Osnos has portrayed, explained and poked fun at this new China better than any other writer from the West or the East." [20] He received two awards from the Overseas Press Club and the Osborn Elliott Prize for excellence in journalism from the Asia Society. [21] [22]

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (2014), Osnos' first book, follows the lives of individuals swept up in China's "radical transformation", Osnos said, in an interview on Fresh Air in June 2014. [2] He said Chinese Communist Party leaders abandoned "the scripture of socialism and they held on to the saints of socialism." In addition to the National Book Award, the book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. [23] Osnos left China in 2013, to write about politics and foreign affairs at The New Yorker. Among other topics, he examined the politics behind a chemical leak in West Virginia [24] and twice profiled Vice President Joe Biden, which became the basis for a book. [25] According to Publishers Weekly , his book, Joe Biden constituted "a portrait of the candidate that's smart and evocative." [26]

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury (2021) follows three dissimilar communities in the US and demonstrates how their interconnections reveal "seismic changes in American politics and culture." [27] The book, a New York Times bestseller, focused on a period of political dissolution bounded by the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. [28] [29]

Personal life

Osnos is married to Sarabeth Berman, a graduate of Barnard College. [11] Since July 2013, they have lived in Washington, D.C., with their two children. [30] Osnos' Chinese name is 欧逸文 (Ōu Yìwén). [31] His father, Peter Osnos, is founder and editor-at-large of PublicAffairs, a publishing company.

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References

  1. ↑ "Contributors". The New Yorker. Conde Nast. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "A 'New Yorker' Writer's Take On China's 'Age Of Ambition'". NPR. Fresh Air. June 3, 2014. Retrieved August 21, 2014.
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  4. ↑ Dwyer, Colin. "'Redeployment,' 'Age Of Ambition' Win National Book Awards". NPR.org. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ Osnos, Evan (October 27, 2020). Joe Biden. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   978-1-9821-7402-6.
  6. ↑ "June 17, 2007 Evan Osnos Chicago Tribune, Beijing Bureau Chief". Q & A. C-Span.
  7. ↑ Osnos, Evan (January 27, 2017). "I'm alive because my father, a Jewish refugee born en route from Poland, was allowed into America in 1944. My generation owns today's shame". Twitter.
  8. ↑ "Albert Sherer Jr., Helsinki Negotiator". Chicago Tribune . December 29, 1986.
  9. ↑ Marchant, Robert (October 10, 2021). "Author who grew up in Greenwich explains the hometown visits he made for his new book, 'Wildland'". Greenwich Time . Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  10. ↑ Slocum, Bill (May 2014). "Human Interest: After more than a decade of living in the Middle East and Communist China, The New Yorker journalist Evan Osnos has plenty of stories involving danger and intrigue. But it's the story of a nation's rebirth that fascinates him the most". Greenwich Magazine. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  11. 1 2 Mallozzi, Vincent (July 8, 2011). "Sarabeth Berman, Evan Osnos". The New York Times.
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  21. ↑ "THE WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD 2011". opcofamerica.org. Overseas Press Club. April 25, 2012.
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  29. ↑ David Shipler and Daniel Zwerdling, What do poor blacks, hedge fund executives, and coal miners have in common? , Interview of Evan Osnos, Two Reporters, October 2021
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  31. ↑ David Leonhardt (January 3, 2018). "特朗普是如何为中国送上大礼包的". NYTimes.com . Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  32. ↑ Osnos, Evan (October 23, 2023). "China's Age of Malaise". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  33. ↑ Osnos, Evan (July 9, 2023). "Wes Moore Would Like to Make History". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved October 24, 2023.
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