Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Rajiv Chandrasekaran | |
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Alma mater | Stanford University |
Genre | non-fiction |
Notable awards | Samuel Johnson Prize |
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an Indian-American journalist. He is the National Editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994.
Life[]
He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, where he became editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily and earned a degree in political science.[1]
At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. During 2003, the Post put his stories on the front page 138 times.[2] In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,[3] and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Chandrasekaran's 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize[4] and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction.[5] The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.[6]
References[]
- ^ About Rajiv Chandrasekaran Archived 2014-09-09 at archive.today at official site rajivc.com
- ^ Natalie Pompilio. Back from the Rajiv Palace, American Journalism Review, Jan. 2005
- ^ "Rajiv Chandrasekaran". International Reporting Project. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ Ezard, John (19 June 2007). "Chronicle of US chaos in Iraq wins £30,000 non-fiction prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ Persky, Stan (2012). Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0773540477.
- ^ McCarthy, Todd (4 March 2010). "Review: "Green Zone"". Variety.
Bibliography[]
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Knopf. 2006. ISBN 9780307278838.
- Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307957146.
- For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice. New York: Vintage. 2014. ISBN 9781101872826. (with Howard Schultz)
External links[]
- Living people
- Stanford University alumni
- The Washington Post people
- American male journalists
- American writers of Indian descent