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Dexter Filkins (Dexter Price Filkins) was born on 24 May, 1961 in Cincinnati, OH, is a journalist, author. Discover Dexter Filkins's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?
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Dexter Price Filkins |
Occupation |
journalist, author |
Age |
63 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
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24 May, 1961 |
Birthday |
24 May |
Birthplace |
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
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United States |
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He is a member of famous Journalist with the age 63 years old group.
Dexter Filkins Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Dexter Filkins's Wife?
His wife is Ana Menéndez (m. 1995–2005)
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Ana Menéndez (m. 1995–2005) |
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Dexter Filkins Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Dexter Filkins worth at the age of 63 years old? Dexter Filkins’s income source is mostly from being a successful Journalist. He is from United States. We have estimated
Dexter Filkins's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
In 2010, his reporting in The New York Times from Afghanistan and Iraq, along with that of the photographer Tyler Hicks and the reporter C. J. Chivers, was selected by New York University as one of the "Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade".
Filkins has won two National Magazine Awards; in 2009, for his story, "Right At the Edge," and in 2011 for "Bedrooms of the Fallen," an essay with the photographer Ashley Gilbertson. Both pieces appeared in the New York Times Magazine.
Filkins' book, The Forever War (2008), chronicling his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, was a New York Times best-seller. The Forever War won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best nonfiction book of 2008, and was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by, among others, The New York Times, Amazon.com, The Washington Post, Time, and the Boston Globe.
Filkins' article, "Right at the Edge" from September 7, 2008, was part of the body of work by the staff of The New York Times awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished reporting on international affairs.
In 2006–2007, Filkins was at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship; in 2007–2008, he was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Filkins has received two George Polk Awards, given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. He was cited for his reports from the assault on Fallujah, Iraq, in November 2004, when the Marine company he travelled with lost a quarter of its men in eight days. In 2011, Filkins and The New York Times colleague Mark Mazzetti won for their reporting on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Before joining the Times in September 2000, Filkins was New Delhi bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times for three years. He reported from The New York Times'' Baghdad bureau in Iraq from 2003 to 2006.
Filkins received a B.A. in political science from the University of Florida in 1983, and a Master of Philosophy in international relations from Oxford University (1984), where he was a student of St Antony's College.
Dexter Price Filkins (born May 24, 1961) is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and he won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been referred to as "the premier combat journalist of his generation". He currently writes for The New Yorker.