Steve Coll is the president of "New America Foundation", and a staff writer of the "The New Yorker" magazine. Earlier he spent twenty years as a senior editor and foreign correspondent at The Washington Post. He served as a managing editor from the year 1998 to 2004. Steve was born inn Washington, DC on 8 October 1958. Coll completed his graduation in 1976 from "Thomas S. Wootton High School", which is located in Rockville, Maryland. After his graduation studies, he moved to west coast for attending Occidental College located in Los Angeles, where he successfully graduated "Phi Beta Kappa" in 1980 with the majors in History and English.
Some of the professional awards won by Coll include 2 Pulitzer Prizes. The first prize was for his explanatory journalism for his sequence with David A in 1990. However, the second award was presented to him for his book, "Ghost Wars" in the year 2005. This book also won the "Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross award", "Lionel Gelber Prize" and the "Overseas Press Club award".
Other awards include the Livingston Award for excellent foreign reporting in 1992, the "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award", which he won in 2000 for his coverage of civil war happened in Sierra Leone as well as a second "Overseas Press Club Award" for his international magazine writing.
Some of the well-known books authored by Coll include:
The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T, which was released in 1986
The Taking of Getty Oil, released in 1987
Eagle on the Street, 1991
On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia, which was released in 1994
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Bin Laden and Afghanistan, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004)
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, released in 2008.
Coll is also famous for his publications. Some of his publications include "Don't look back", The Paradoxes of Al Qaeda, Threats, Steve Coll on Afghanistan Strategy, War and Politics, The Case for Humility in Afghanistan, U.S. Interests and Policy Choices in Afghanistan, Afghanistan's Impact on Pakistan, In Search of Success, The Crisis in Journalism and Potential Policy Responses.
Coll has been also participated in numerous events like "Challenges & Opportunities in South Asia", "Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan From a UK Perspective", "Shaping Media Policy for the 21st Century", "Al-Qaeda Central", "FCC Chairman Genachowski to Preview National Broadband Plan Spectrum Recommendations", "President Obama One Year On", Afghanistan, Enemies of the People, Al- Qaeda and Its Allies: The Endgame and also in Superfusion.
Steve Coll regularly maintains his own blog, which is known as Think Tank on the "The New Yorker" website. He also writes primarily on the issues of the foreign as well as public policy and on the American national security.
This website will not only give information on his work, but also about his life history and achievements, he has made until date.
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