Lannan Foundation

Chris Hedges, currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. He is the author of the best-selling War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Public Affairs, 2002), which was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Hedges was part of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. His most recent book is Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America (Free Press, 2005). Hedges is also the author of What Every Person Should Know About War (Free Press, 2003) and will publish American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press) in January 2007.