![]() ![]() His work has also garnered multiple accolades: he has received two John Bartlow Martin Awards for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, won two Overseas Press Club Awards since 2009, and is a two-time finalist for a National Magazine Award. ![]() His recent work for the magazine is an eclectic assortment: there’s an in-depth examination of the American fast-food workers’ movement, features and commentary on the politics of immigration reform in the US, and a profile of the first drag queen star of Mexico’s lucha libre (“free wrestling”).įinnegan’s varied research and reporting have led to several books, among them Crossing the Line (1986) and Dateline Soweto (1988), about apartheid South Africa, A Complicated War (1992), about Mozambique’s sixteen-year civil war, and Cold New World (1998), about downward mobility in the United States. On staff at The New Yorker since 1987, Finnegan has reported on a wide range of international conflicts, including the aftermath of the Sandinista revolt in Nicaragua, the civil wars in Mozambique, Sudan, and the Balkans, and the drug wars in Mexico. The writer William Finnegan’s output is remarkable not only for its volume, but for its scope. ![]()
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