Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. He is also a co-host of The New Yorker’s Political Scene podcast and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. He is the author of four books, beginning with 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, is a New York Times bestseller. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Times (London), The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich, is a sharp, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich warp our social and political landscape.
Prior to The New Yorker, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, where he was on teams that won 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.