Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)

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Author Thomas Ricks in 2007, posing with his book Fiasco.

Thomas E. Ricks (born 1955 in Massachusetts)^[1] is a Washington Post Pentagon and military correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winner. Ricks lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. Ricks is author of the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq as well as Making the Corps and A Soldier's Duty.

Prior to joining the Washington Post in 2000, Ricks was a reporter with the Wall Street Journal for seventeen years. He is a 1977 graduate of Yale University.^[1]

Ricks lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife. He has a son and daughter.

[edit] Bibliography

(2006) Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Penguin.

(2001) A Soldier's Duty: A Novel. Random House.

(1997) Making the Corps. Scribner.

[edit] External links & References

New York Times Book Review of Fiasco
Washington Post Articles by Thomas Ricks
Harvard Crimson Review of Fiasco
Interview on Fiasco at the Pritzker Military Library
Thomas E. Ricks, Penguin Group profile. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.

Thomas E. Ricks. Author Spotlight. Random House. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.

^ ^a ^b Tom Ricks. Washington Post. Retrieved on 2008-03-18. “Born in Massachusetts in 1955, he grew up in New York and Afghanistan and graduated from Yale in 1977.”