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Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. His coverage ranges from politics and foreign affairs to white-collar crime and espionage. He has written Profiles of Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, visited North Korea during the nuclear crisis of 2017, and reported from the siege at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. His first book, “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,” based on his experience of living in Beijing for eight years, won the 2014 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2020, Osnos published “Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now.” His most recent book is “Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury.”
Previously, Osnos worked as the Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, where he was part of a team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Before his assignment to China, he worked in the Middle East, reporting mostly from Iraq. He is a CNN contributor and a frequent guest on “The Daily Show,” “Fresh Air,” and other programs. He lives in Washington, D.C.