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17: 42:, where he studied Comparative Literature and Comparative History of Ideas. He also studied Arabic in Fez, Morocco. Johnson began his journalism career as an intern in Newsweek's Paris bureau. He eventually became a Special Correspondent and worked on a wide range of topics, including Mad Cow Disease, Pedophilia, European agriculture and the war in Kosovo. 111:
From September 2010 to June 2013, Johnson was named the Violence Reporting Fellow at the California Endowment where he reported from Oakland, CA for the Bay Area News Group. His work garnered several journalism awards, notably from the California Newspaper Association and the Society of Professional
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as well as his eventual execution; Iraqi politics and American diplomatic and military efforts. Johnson was the first American print journalist to spend time with Iraqi insurgents, during the summer of 2003. For his reporting from Iraq, Johnson shared in Newsweek's
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In 2007, Johnson was named Newsweek's Africa Bureau Chief. In addition to South African news, he covered wars in Congo and Somalia, electoral violence in Kenya, Chinese influence in Angola and the deterioration of Zimbabwe.
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published Johnson's first book, a memoir entitled "The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, A Son and the CIA." In September 2013, "The Wolf and the Watchman" was placed on the Long List for the
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After September 11, 2001, Johnson reported from Afghanistan for several months before moving to Mexico City in 2002 where he was appointed Bureau Chief. In 2004, Johnson was awarded an
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In 2003 Johnson began reporting on the American invasion of Iraq. From 2005–2007 he was the magazine's Baghdad Bureau Chief. In addition to the invasion, Johnson covered the hunt for
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Journalists Nor-Cal. His article "How a War Hero Became a Serial Bank Robber" was named one of BuzzFeed's Most Harrowing Stories of 2013.
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foreign correspondent and Bureau Chief, reporting from more than fifty countries His writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy,
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honorable mention for his reporting on economics in Latin America.
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The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius.
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University of Washington
Newsweek
New York Times
BuzzFeed
Guernica Magazine
Granta
W W Norton
National Book Award
Washington Post
Overseas Press Club
Saddam Hussein
National Magazine Award
HarperCollins
"The Daily Beast Contributors"
"2013 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction"
"Notable Nonfiction of 2013"
"The 17 Most Harrowing Feature Stories Of 2013"
"'It wasn't really about the money': the shocking story of Hollywood's con queen"
Categories
1973 births
Living people
21st-century American memoirists
American male journalists
American male non-fiction writers

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