James Verini is an American magazine journalist and book author. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.[1] He also writes for National Geographic, The New Yorker,[2]Vanity Fair,[3]The Atavist,[4]Foreign Policy,[5] and others.[6] His book They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate was published on September 17, 2019, by W. W. Norton.[7]
Career
In 2015, he received a National Magazine Award for feature writing for "Love and Ruin," an article in The Atavist about the history of American intervention in Afghanistan.[8] He won a 2015 George Polk Award for "Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace?", about the civil war in Democratic Republic of Congo, in National Geographic.[9]