Joby Warrick
Journalist and nonfiction author
Joby Warrick is an American journalist who has reported on national security and the Middle East for The Washington Post. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and wrote Black Flags.
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American Born 1960 in Goldsboro, United States
About Joby Warrick
Born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, in 1960, Joby Warrick studied journalism at Temple University and graduated in 1982. He worked as a foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe for United Press International, then as an investigative reporter at The News & Observer in Raleigh. There he co-authored the Boss Hog series on factory farming, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Warrick joined The Washington Post in 1996 and has written about the Middle East, diplomacy and national security. He has also covered the intelligence community, the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and the environment. Black Flags is his account of the people and events behind the rise of the Islamic State, and it won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. He has also written Red Line and The Triple Agent, which reached the New York Times best-seller list and follows a CIA operation in Afghanistan.