Bio
Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. He is also co-host of The New Yorker’s Political Scene podcast and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The topics of his work range from politics and foreign affairs to white-collar crime and espionage. He has published profiles of Xi Jinping, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris; visited North Korea during a nuclear crisis; and reported from the siege on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He is the author of four books, including “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,” which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich,” was an instant New York Times bestseller in 2025. Prior to The New Yorker, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, where he shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and in 2008. Before his assignment to China, he worked in the Middle East, reporting mostly from Iraq. He lives with his family near Washington, D.C.
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