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Evan Osnos

Evan Lionel Richard Osnos(born December 24, 1976) is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer atThe New Yorkersince 2008, best known for his coverage of politics and foreign affairs, in the United States and China.[1][2][3]His 2014 book,Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,won theNational Book Awardfor nonfiction.[4]

Evan Osnos
Osnos at theWorld Economic ForumAnnual Meeting of the New Champions in 2011
Born
Evan Lionel Richard Osnos

December 24, 1976(1976-12-24)(age47)
London, England
NationalityAmerican
Other namesÂu dật văn
Alma materHarvard University(AB)
OccupationJournalist
EmployerThe New Yorker
SpouseSarabeth Berman
Children2
Parents
RelativesKatherine Osnos Sanford (Sister)
AwardsNational Book Award for Nonfiction
Websitehttps:// evanosnos

In October 2020 he published a biography ofJoe Biden,entitledJoe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now.[5]In September 2021, he publishedWildland: The Making of America's Fury,about profound cultural and political changes occurring betweenSeptember 11, 2001,andJanuary 6, 2021,as evidenced by the turmoil of 2020.

Early life and education

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Osnos was born in London, when his parents, Susan (née Sherer) Osnos andPeter L.W. Osnos,were visiting from Moscow, where his father was assigned as a correspondent forThe Washington Post.[6]

Osnos' father was aJewishrefugee fromPolandborn in India when his family was en route to the U.S.[7]His mother was the daughter of diplomatAlbert W. Sherer Jr.[8]

Osnos was raised inGreenwich, Connecticut,and graduated fromGreenwich High Schoolin 1994.[9][10]He then attendedHarvard University,where in 1998 he graduatedmagna cum laudewith a Bachelor of Arts in government.[11]

Career

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In the summer of 1999, Osnos joined theChicago Tribuneas a metro reporter, and, later, a national and foreign correspondent.[12]He was based in New York at the time of theSeptember 11 attacks.In 2002, he was assigned to the Middle East, where he covered theIraq Warand reported fromEgypt,Saudi Arabia,Syria,Iran,and elsewhere. In 2005, he became the China correspondent.[13]He was a guest on theColbert Reportin 2007 and 2011 to discuss China's changes.[14][15]He was part of aChicago Tribuneteam that won the2008Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.[16]

Osnos joinedThe New Yorkerin September 2008 and served as the magazine's China correspondent until 2013. Osnos has contributed to theNPRradio showThis American Lifeand thePBStelevision showFrontline.[17][18]AsThe New Yorker'sChina correspondent, Evan maintained a regular blog called "Letter from China"[19]and wrote articles about China's young neoconservatives, theFukushima nuclear meltdown,and theWenzhou train crash.According toThe Washington Post,"In the pages of the New Yorker, Evan Osnos has portrayed, explained and poked fun at this new China better than any other writer from the West or the East."[20]He received two awards from theOverseas Press Cluband theOsborn ElliottPrize for excellence in journalism from theAsia Society.[21][22]

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China(2014), Osnos' first book, follows the lives of individuals swept up in China's "radical transformation", Osnos said, in an interview onFresh Airin June 2014.[2]He saidChinese Communist Partyleaders abandoned "the scripture of socialism and they held on to the saints of socialism." In addition to theNational Book Award,the book was a finalist for thePulitzer Prizein nonfiction.[23]Osnos left China in 2013, to write about politics and foreign affairs atThe New Yorker.Among other topics, he examined the politics behind a chemical leak inWest Virginia[24]and twice profiled Vice PresidentJoe Biden,which became the basis for a book.[25]According toPublishers Weekly,his book,Joe Bidenconstituted "a portrait of the candidate that's smart and evocative."[26]

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury(2021) follows three dissimilar communities in the US and demonstrates how their interconnections reveal "seismic changes in American politics and culture."[27]The book, aNew York Timesbestseller, focused on a period of political dissolution bounded by theterrorist attacks of 2001and theassault on the Capitolon January 6, 2021.[28][29]

Personal life

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Osnos is married to Sarabeth Berman, a graduate ofBarnard College.[11]Since July 2013, they have lived in Washington, D.C., with their two children.[30]Osnos' Chinese name is Âu dật văn (Ōu Yìwén).[31]His father, Peter Osnos, is founder and editor-at-large ofPublicAffairs,a publishing company.

Publications

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Books

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  • Osnos, Evan (2014).Age of ambition: chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the New China.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • — (2020).Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now.New York: Scribner. p. 192.ISBN978-1982174026.
  • — (2021).Wildland: The Making of America's Fury.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 480.ISBN978-0374286675.

Articles

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  • "Ruling-Class Rules: How to thrive in the power elite – while declaring it your enemy",The New Yorker,January 29, 2024, pp. 18–23. "In the nineteen-twenties... American elites, some of whom feared aBolshevik revolution,consented to reform... UnderFranklin D. Roosevelt... the U.S. raised taxes, took steps to protectunions,and established aminimum wage.The costs,[Peter] Turchinwrites, 'were borne by the Americanruling class.'... Between the nineteen-thirties and the nineteen-seventies, a period that scholars call theGreat Compression,economic equality narrowed, except among Black Americans... But by the nineteen-eighties the Great Compression was over. As the rich grew richer than ever, they sought to turn their money into political power; spending on politics soared. "(p. 22.)" [N]o democracy can function well if people are unwilling to lose power – if a generation of leaders... becomes so entrenched that it ages intogerontocracy;if one of two major parties denies the arithmetic of elections; if a cohort of the ruling class loses status that it once enjoyed and sets out to salvage it. "(p. 23.)
  • "China's Age of Malaise",The New Yorker,October 23, 2023.[32]
  • "Wes Moore Would Like to Make History",The New Yorker,July 9, 2023.[33]

References

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  1. ^"Contributors".The New Yorker.Conde Nast.RetrievedJuly 30,2014.
  2. ^ab"A 'New Yorker' Writer's Take On China's 'Age Of Ambition'".NPR.Fresh Air.June 3, 2014.RetrievedAugust 21,2014.
  3. ^Shapiro, Judith (May 25, 2014)."Striving for Wealth and Truth in China, in Face of Monolithic Government".The New York Times.The New York Times.RetrievedAugust 12,2014.
  4. ^Dwyer, Colin."'Redeployment,' 'Age Of Ambition' Win National Book Awards ".NPR.org.RetrievedNovember 20,2014.
  5. ^Osnos, Evan (October 27, 2020).Joe Biden.Simon and Schuster.ISBN978-1-9821-7402-6.
  6. ^"June 17, 2007 Evan Osnos Chicago Tribune, Beijing Bureau Chief".Q & A.C-Span.
  7. ^Osnos, Evan (January 27, 2017)."I'm alive because my father, a Jewish refugee born en route from Poland, was allowed into America in 1944. My generation owns today's shame".Twitter.
  8. ^"Albert Sherer Jr., Helsinki Negotiator".Chicago Tribune.December 29, 1986.
  9. ^Marchant, Robert (October 10, 2021)."Author who grew up in Greenwich explains the hometown visits he made for his new book, 'Wildland'".Greenwich Time.RetrievedMarch 6,2024.
  10. ^Slocum, Bill (May 2014)."Human Interest: After more than a decade of living in the Middle East and Communist China, The New Yorker journalist Evan Osnos has plenty of stories involving danger and intrigue. But it's the story of a nation's rebirth that fascinates him the most".Greenwich Magazine. Archived fromthe originalon August 8, 2014.RetrievedJuly 30,2014.
  11. ^abMallozzi, Vincent (July 8, 2011)."Sarabeth Berman, Evan Osnos".The New York Times.
  12. ^"New Yorker Staff Writer Evan Osnos delivers the 2013 Morris Lecture".Nieman Foundation for JournalismatHarvard University:Online. November 12, 2013. Archived fromthe originalon January 16, 2014.RetrievedJanuary 14,2014.
  13. ^McKenzie, Hamish (July 16, 2012)."The New Yorker's Evan Osnos on How Sina Weibo Changes Lives in China".PandoDaily.RetrievedAugust 12,2014.
  14. ^"July 30th, 2007".Colbert Report.Archived fromthe originalon August 11, 2014.RetrievedJuly 30,2014.
  15. ^"March 11, 2011".Colbert Report.Archived fromthe originalon August 12, 2014.RetrievedAugust 12,2014.
  16. ^"The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners Investigative Reporting".Columbia University, 709 Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway New York, NY 10027.
  17. ^"Why Do You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? 467: Americans in China".This American Life.Chicago Public Media & Ira Glass.RetrievedJuly 31,2014.
  18. ^"Jesus in China".pbs.org/frontlineworld/.WGBH educational foundation.RetrievedJuly 31,2014.
  19. ^Osnos, Evan."Letter from China".The New Yorker:Online.RetrievedJanuary 5,2010.
  20. ^Pomfret, John (May 16, 2014)."Review: 'Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China' by Evan Osnos".The Washington Post.RetrievedJuly 30,2014.
  21. ^"THE WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD 2011".opcofamerica.org.Overseas Press Club. April 25, 2012.
  22. ^"Asia Society Awards Osborn Elliott Journalism Prize To Evan Osnos For Examining The Global Effects of China's Growth".Asia Society.RetrievedJuly 30,2014.
  23. ^"Finalist:Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,by Evan Osnos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ".The Pulitzer Prizes.RetrievedOctober 27,2020.
  24. ^Wertheimer, Linda (April 3, 2014)."Chemical Spill In W. Va. Tests Tolerance For Big Coal".NPR - Morning Edition.RetrievedAugust 12,2014.
  25. ^Topaz, Jonathan (July 21, 2014)."New Yorker profile: 15 Bidenisms".Politico.RetrievedAugust 12,2014.
  26. ^"Publishers Weekly".publishersweekly.RetrievedOctober 27,2020.
  27. ^Harvard Book Store,Review of Wildland: The Making of America's Fury,New Hardcover - Nonfiction / Politics, Harvard, accessed 2021.11.07
  28. ^"Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - Books - Oct. 3, 2021 - The New York Times".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedJanuary 30,2023.
  29. ^David ShiplerandDaniel Zwerdling,What do poor blacks, hedge fund executives, and coal miners have in common?,Interview of Evan Osnos,Two Reporters,October 2021
  30. ^Chen, Te-Ping (May 6, 2014)."Writing China: Evan Osnos, 'Age of Ambition'".The Wall Street Journal.RetrievedAugust 12,2014.
  31. ^David Leonhardt(January 3, 2018)."Đặc lãng phổ là như thế nào vì Trung Quốc đưa lên đại lễ bao".NYTimes.RetrievedJanuary 31,2018.
  32. ^Osnos, Evan (October 23, 2023)."China's Age of Malaise".The New Yorker.ISSN0028-792X.RetrievedOctober 24,2023.
  33. ^Osnos, Evan (July 9, 2023)."Wes Moore Would Like to Make History".The New Yorker.ISSN0028-792X.RetrievedOctober 24,2023.
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