William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing.
Books in order of publication:
Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid. Persea. – 1984
A complicated war: the harrowing of Mozambique. University of California Press – 1993
Dateline Soweto: travels with Black South African reporters. University of California Press. – 1995
Cold new world : growing up in a harder country. Random House – 1998
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Penguin. – 2015
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