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Journalist William Finnegan's Pulitzer Prize Winning Surfing Memoir

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 (Photo: The New Yorker)

New Yorker journalist William Finnegan has covered armed conflicts in Africa and urban poverty in the United States. But for decades he shied away from writing about his personal passion: surfing. Last year, Finnegan published a memoir, “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life,” that describes his journey from boyhood to manhood catching waves in California, Hawaii, and the Polynesian islands. The book recently won a Pulitzer Prize.  We’ll talk with Finnegan about surfing, his journalism and maintaining both into old age.

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William Finnegan, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life," which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for biography

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