David Zucchino is the winner of 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times. He has covered wars and civil conflicts in more than two dozen countries. He was previously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches from apartheid South Africa and is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for his reporting from Iraq, Lebanon, Africa, and Philadelphia. He is the author of Thunder Run and Myth of the Welfare Queen.