Evan Osnos

Evan Osnos
Osnos at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in 2011
Born	Evan Lionel Richard Osnos 24 December 1976 (1976-12-24) (age 40) London, England
Nationality	American
Education	B.A. Political Science
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Journalist
Spouse(s)	Sarabeth Berman
Parent(s)	Peter L. W. Osnos Susan Osnos
Awards	National Book Award for Nonfiction

Evan Lionel Richard Osnos (born December 24, 1976) is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, best known for his coverage of China. He is the author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, which won the 2014 National Book Award for nonfiction.

Osnos was born in London, when his parents, Susan (née Sherer) Osnos and Peter L.W. Osnos, were visiting from Moscow, where his father was assigned as a correspondent for the Washington Post. Osnos graduated from Greenwich High School in 1994. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1998.

In the summer of 1999, Osnos joined the Chicago Tribune as a metro reporter, and, later, a national and foreign correspondent. He was based in New York at the time of the September 11 attacks. In 2002, he was assigned to the Middle East, where he covered the Iraq War and reported from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, and elsewhere. In 2005, he became the China correspondent. He was a guest on the Colbert Report in 2007 and 2011 to discuss China's changes. In 2008, he was part of a Chicago Tribune team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Osnos joined The New Yorker in September 2008 and served as the magazine’s China Correspondent until 2013. Osnos has contributed to the NPR radio show This American Life and the PBS television show Frontline. As The New Yorker's China correspondent, Evan maintained a regular blog called "Letter from China" and wrote articles about China’s young neoconservatives, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and the Wenzhou train crash. According to the 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." He has received two awards from the Overseas Press Club and the Osborn Elliott Prize for excellence in journalism from the Asia Society. Osnos is among those featured Episodes 11 (Contradictions) and 12 (Follow the Money) of the USC U.S.-China Institute's Assignment:China series.