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Steve Coll

Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958) is an American journalist, academic, and executive.

Steve Coll

(1958-10-08) October 8, 1958
Washington, D.C., U.S.

Journalist, author, business executive

American

Occidental College (BA)
University of Sussex

Journalism

Ghost Wars; The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (2008)

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (1990); Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (2005)

Eliza Griswold

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He was dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he also served as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism until 2022. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he served as the president and CEO of the New America think tank from 2007 to 2012.


He is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prize awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards, a PEN American Center John Kenneth Galbraith Award, an Arthur Ross Book Award, a Livingston Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. From 2012 to 2013, he was a voting member of the Pulitzer Prize Board before continuing to serve in an ex officio capacity as the dean of the Columbia Journalism School.

Early life and family[edit]

Steve Coll was born on October 8, 1958, in Washington, D.C. He attended Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, graduating in 1976. Following high school, he moved to Los Angeles, California, and enrolled in Occidental College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1980, he graduated cum laude with majors in English and history. Coll also attended the University of Sussex during his studies.[1][2]


Coll is married to the journalist and poet Eliza Griswold.[3]

1990: (co-winner with David A. Vise)[8]

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

1991: for International Reporting for "Crisis and Change in South Asia," The Washington Post (winner)[18]

Livingston Award

2000: for "Peace Without Justice: A Journey to the Wounded Heart of Africa," The Washington Post (1st Prize: International Print)

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

2000: Ed Cunningham Award for "Peace Without Justice: A Journey to the Wounded Heart of Africa", The Washington Post

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2004: for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (winner)

Lionel Gelber Prize

2004: for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (winner)[20]

Cornelius Ryan Award

2005: for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (winner)[21]

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

2005: for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (winner)

Arthur Ross Book Award

2008: (biography) for The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (finalist)[22]

National Book Critics Circle Award

2009: for The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (winner)

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award

2012: for Private Empire (winner)[23]

Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

2012: National Book Critics Circle Award (nonfiction) for Private Empire (finalist)

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2018: National Book Critics Circle Award (nonfiction) for Directorate S (winner)

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Coll, Steve (1986). . Atheneum. ISBN 9780689117572. OCLC 312023490.

The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T

— (1987). The Taking of Getty Oil: The Full Story of the Most Spectacular & Catastrophic Takeover of All Time. Scribner.  9780689118609.

ISBN

Vise, David A. & Steve Coll (1991). Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Account of the SEC's Battle with Wall Street. New York: Scribner's.  0684193140.

ISBN

Coll, Steve (1993). On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia. Crown Press.  9780812920260.

ISBN

— (2004). . Penguin. ISBN 9781594200076.

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

— (2008). . Penguin. ISBN 9781616792527.

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

— (2012). Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. Penguin.  9781594203350.

ISBN

— (2018). Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016. Penguin Press.  9781846146602.

ISBN

— (2024). The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq. Penguin Press.  9780525562269.

ISBN

Coll, Steve (November 23, 2015). . The New Yorker (Podcast).

"ISIS After Paris"

— (August 1, 2016). . The New Yorker (Podcast).

"Defying Conventions"

— (August 29, 2016). . The New Yorker (Podcast).

"Images of War"

— (September 26, 2016). . The New Yorker (Podcast).

"The Fear Factor"

— (April 10, 2017). . The New Yorker (Podcast).

"Trump's Intervention"

at The New York Review of Books

Steve Coll

on C-SPAN

Appearances