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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 ...
Aug 14, 2015 · Near the end of Barbarian Days, William Finnegan’s luscious memoir about his life-long infatuation with surfing, the author describes a wave of huge power in which this tension becomes manifest.
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 21, 2015 · 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 entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.
Jul 13, 2015 · William Finnegan revisits his golden age of surfing and the classic search for the perfect wave.
Apr 26, 2016 · William Finnegan on Surf Writing and Winning a Pulitzer. A conversation with the journalist whose 2015 surfing memoir, 'Barbarian Days,' just won the Pulitzer Prize, about tapping his passion for...
