David Zucchino

David Zucchino is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author. He is best known for his coverage of the Iraq War and the United States’ involvement in the Middle East. Zucchino’s commitment to his craft and ability to tell effective stories has earned him multiple awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes.

David Zucchino was born in 1957 in Philadelphia. His father worked as a hospital orderly, but Zucchino’s parents divorced when he was eight years old. His formative years were largely spent in the suburbs of Philadelphia. After graduating from high school, Zucchino attended the University of Pennsylvania where he studied journalism and English literature.

In 1985, David Zucchino began his career as a journalist when he accepted a position covering South Carolina politics for the Charlotte Observer. He then moved to Los Angeles to cover the 1988 presidential election for The Philadelphia Inquirer. By 1992, Zucchino accepted a foreign correspondent job for The Los Angeles Times.

Zucchino spent the majority of his reporting career covering the Middle East. He reported on topics ranging from Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program and the aftermath of the Gulf War to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Zucchino’s reporting earned him two Pulitzer Prizes, the Michael Kelly Award, and the Overseas Press Club award.

Since leaving the Los Angeles Times in 2008, David Zucchino has been a writer in residence at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He also works as a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. In 2017, he released his first book, Wrath of Empires: Iraq and the Legacy of America’s Wars. The book is a collection of essays that Zucchino wrote for The New York Times Magazine about the Iraq War.

David Zucchino has also written two other books, the first being Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq (2008), which is an inside look at what it was like covering the War in Iraq. His second book, The Myth of Equality: What White Americans Really Believe About Race (2018), examines how white people in the US view and understand racism.

David Zucchino’s latest book, Wilmington’s Lie: The Memory of the 1898 Massacre and the Americans’ Struggle for Racial Justice is an intellectual and passionate examination of a forgotten event in American history: the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898. The book combines extensive research, personal interviews, and a vivid narrative to tell the story of the riots and its lasting impact on race relations in the US. Zucchino’s book puts a human face on a tragedy that has largely been forgotten.

Overall, David Zucchino is an extraordinary journalist and a gifted storyteller. In all of his works, Zucchino skillfully crafts thoughtful pieces of literature about social and political issues, which makes him one of the best authors writing about the experiences of people affected by war and injustice.