James Verini is an American magazine journalist and book author.
[1] He also writes for National Geographic, The New Yorker,[2] Vanity Fair,[3] The Atavist,[4] Foreign Policy,[5] and others.
[6] His book They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate was published on September 17, 2019, by W. W.
[7] In 2015, he received a National Magazine Award for feature writing for "Love and Ruin," an article in The Atavist about the history of American intervention in Afghanistan.
[8] He won a 2015 George Polk Award for "Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace?