Catch and Kill (Farrow) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—December 19, 1987
• Where—New York, New York, USA
• Education—B.A., Bard College, J.D., Yale University, Ph.D., Oxford University
• Awards—Pulitizer Prize
• Currently—lives in New York City


Ronan Farrow is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, where his investigative reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the National Magazine Award, and the George Polk Award, among other honors.

He previously worked as an anchor and investigative reporter at MSNBC and NBC News, with his print commentary and reporting appearing in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post.

Before his career in journalism, he served as a State Department official in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is also the author of War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (2018) and most recently of Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (2019).

The basis for Catch and Kill, Farrow's article published in The New Yorker, won him a Pulitizer for Public Service. He shared the prize with Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey for their coverage of the same topic in the New York Times.

Farrow has been named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People and one of GQ's Men of the Year. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the New York Bar. He recently completed a Ph.D. in political science at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in New York. (From the publisher.)