In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Finalist for the Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Named a Best Book of 2018 by Esquire and Foreign Policy. An Amazon Best Book of November, the Guardian Bookshop Book of November, and one of the Evening Standard's Books to Read in November "Now, thanks to Hilsum’s deeply reported and passionately written book, [Marie Colvin] has the full accounting that she deserves." --Joshua Hammer, The New York Times The inspiring and devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012, and whose life story also forms the basis of the feature film A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike as Colvin.
Award History
0 wins · 3 total
| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionMajor | 2019 | Longlist | Official source |
| Costa Book Awards: Biography | 2019 | Finalist | Secondary source |
| Plutarch Award: Biography | 2019 | Finalist | Secondary source |
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01 Central figures
- Marie Colvin90%
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- Syria70%
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