David Zucchino

David Zucchino is an American journalist and foreign correspondent who has reported from more than thirty countries for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina and has covered conflicts from Beirut to Mogadishu to Baghdad. His book Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy (2020) uncovered the largely forgotten story of the Wilmington, North Carolina coup d'état, in which a white supremacist mob overthrew a duly elected multiracial government — the only successful coup on American soil. The book won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Zucchino is also the author of Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad (2004) and Myth of the Welfare Queen (1997). He has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing (1989) for his investigative series on welfare policy.