Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, died at the age of 43 in Syria, while reporting for the New York Times. A beloved and brilliant writer, Shadid spent his two-decade career reporting for the Boston Globe, the Times and The Washington Post in the Middle East. He was also the author of three books, including “House of Stone,”due out this March.
Shadid won two Pulitzers for coverage of Iraq while reporting for The Post. In 2010, for his second prize, the Pulitzer board wrote they awarded Shadid “for his rich, beautifully written series on Iraq as the United States departs and its people and leaders struggle to deal with the legacy of war and to shape the nation’s future.”
Follow the link for a compilation of the work submitted for Shadid’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize.
Jesus fuck today. Shadid was the only reason I touched the New York Times. He is one of very few people that wrote about Iraq-arab or otherwise-that didn’t make me want to set things on fire. I’ll miss him.
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