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William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing. [1] Early years.
How the effort to renovate midtown Manhattan’s transit hub has been stalled by money, politics, and disputes about the public good. William Finnegan has been a contributor to The New Yorker ...
Apr 26, 2016 · A conversation with the journalist whose 2015 surfing memoir, 'Barbarian Days,' just won the Pulitzer Prize, about tapping his passion for a book project, and what his favorite breaks...
May 25, 2015 · William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. His book “Barbarian Days” won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Jul 13, 2015 · William Finnegan revisits his golden age of surfing and the classic search for the perfect wave.
Jul 21, 2015 · William Finnegan is a renowned writer at the New Yorker and while he addresses racism, poverty and politics in his work, this memoir addresses what he is at core – a surfer. Raised in California and Hawaii in the 60s and 70s, he started surfing as a child and simply never stopped.
Apr 26, 2016 · Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.
William Finnegan is the author of Cold New World, A Complicated War, Dateline Soweto, Crossing the Line, and Barbarian Days. He has twice been a National Magazine Award finalist and has won numerous journalism awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards since 2009.
May 23, 2022 · The big-wave surfer tackles some of the most fearsome swells on the planet. On the surface, it looks like he’s just having fun, William Finnegan writes.
Jul 21, 2015 · Longtime New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan is being modest here, relating one of many spiritually resonant surfing experiences on Fiji's Tavarua Island in 1978. In fact, there is no...
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