A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987, he lives in Manhattan. He has twice been a National Magazine Award finalist and has won numerous journalism awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards since 2009. It is a memoir of dangerous obsession and enchantment.Ī deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writerĪbout the Author: WILLIAM FINNEGAN is the author of Cold New World, A Complicated War, Dateline Soweto, and Crossing the Line. Finnegan describes the edgy yet enduring brotherhood forged among the swell of the surf and recalling his own apprenticeship to the world's most famous and challenging waves, he considers the intense relationship formed between man, board and water.īARBARIAN DAYS is an old-school adventure story, a social history, an extraordinary exploration of one man's gradual mastering of an exacting and little-understood art. BARBARIAN DAYS is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa, Peru and beyond. William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. William Finnegan is the author of Cold New War, Dateline Soweto. William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of works of international journalism. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. You are invited to meet the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner William Finnegan when he.

THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 and WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016

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