William Finnegan is the author of Cold New World, A Complicated War, Dateline Soweto, Crossing the Line, and his recent memoir, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for biography. He has twice been a National Magazine Award finalist and has won numerous journalism awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards since 2009. A staff writer at the New Yorker since 1987, he lives in Manhattan.