Awards & Winners

Thomas E. Ricks

Date of Birth 25-September-1955
Place of Birth Beverly
(Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Thomas E Ricks
Profession Writer, Journalist, Teacher, Author, Editor
Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He writes a blog at ForeignPolicy.com and is a member of the Center for a New American Security, a defense policy think tank. He lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, the novel A Soldier's Duty, and Making the Corps.

Awards by Thomas E. Ricks

Check all the awards nominated and won by Thomas E. Ricks.

2007


Ambassador Book Award for Current Affairs
Honored for : Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

2000


Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Honored for : The Wall Street Journal
(For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future.)

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting The Wall Street Journal
For its revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future.