James Verini


James Verini is an American journalist and author living in France. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. He writes for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Atavist, Foreign Policy, and others. His book They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate was published on September 17, 2019, by W. W. Norton.

Career

In 2015, he was the recipient of a National Magazine Award for feature writing for "Love and Ruin", an article in The Atavist about the history of American intervention in Afghanistan. He won a 2015 George Polk Award for "Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace?", about the civil war in Democratic Republic of Congo, in National Geographic.