Jack Fairweather (writer)
Jack Fairweather, is a British journalist and award-winning author.Early Life
Fairweather was born in Wales in 1978 to Rufus and Cherry Fairweather. He has three younger siblings. He was educated at Atlantic College and Lincoln College, at the University of Oxford.Career
Fairweather was a war correspondent embedded with British troops during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad, where he met his wife, New York Times journalist Christina Asquith. Fairweather survived an attempted kidnapping and an attempted suicide bombing.
He later covered the war in Afghanistan for The Washington Post. His war coverage has won a British Press Award and an Overseas Press Club award citation. His book The Volunteer, a biography about a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, won the 2019 Costa Book Award.Books
- The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan, by Jack Fairweather,
- A War of Choice: the British in Iraq 2003-9
- The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army Inside Auschwitz and Stop the Holocaust
Awards
The Good War was a finalist for the 2015 Lionel Gelber Prize.
The Volunteer won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2019.
