In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

Name: In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
ISBN: 9781784706227

by Lindsey Hilsum

James Tait · 2021 · ShortlistJames Tait · 2018 · Winner

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Chatto & WindusOctober 4, 2018Biography & MemoirISBN 9781784706227

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography	2021	Shortlist
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography	2018	Winner	“For its vivid and unsparing portrait of Marie Colvin's life and the compulsion that drove her to witness the world's worst atrocities.”

About This Book

Lindsey Hilsum's biography of war correspondent Marie Colvin (1956–2012), who was killed in Homs, Syria, is a vivid and unsparing account of a life defined by an almost supernatural compulsion to witness and report from the world's worst conflicts. Drawing on Colvin's own notebooks and those who knew her best, Hilsum produces a portrait at once admiring and clear-eyed. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography in 2018.

About the Author

Lindsey HilsumGB

Lindsey Hilsum is a British journalist and author born in 1958. She is International Editor at Channel 4 News and has reported from conflict zones around the world for over thirty years, including Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. She was one of the few reporters in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and has covered the Arab Spring and its aftermath from its beginning. Read more →