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Evan Lionel Richard Osnos (born December 24, 1976) is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, best known for his coverage of politics and foreign affairs, in the United States and China, and, since 2016, his coverage of the world's wealthiest individuals. His 2014 book, , won the National Book Award for nonfiction.
In October 2020 he published a biography of Joe Biden, entitled Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now. In September 2021, he published Wildland: The Making of America's Fury, about profound cultural and political changes occurring between September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021, as evidenced by the turmoil of 2020.
Osnos' father was a Polish Jews refugee from Poland born in India when his family was en route to the U.S. His mother was the daughter of diplomat Albert W. Sherer Jr.
Osnos was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated from Greenwich High School in 1994. He then attended Harvard University, where he wrote for The Harvard Crimson and graduated in 1998 magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in government.
Osnos joined The New Yorker in September 2008 and served as the magazine's China correspondent until 2013. In this role, Evan maintained a regular blog called "Letter from China" and wrote articles about China's young neoconservatives, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and the Wenzhou train crash. According to The Washington Post, "In the pages of the New Yorker, Evan Osnos has portrayed, explained and poked fun at this new China better than any other writer from the West or the East." He received two awards from the Overseas Press Club and the Osborn Elliott Prize for excellence in journalism from the Asia Society. Since returning from China, Osnos has covered topics including politics, foreign affairs, white collar crime, and espionage, including high-profile interviews with American President Joe Biden, White Collar Support Group founder Jeffrey Grant, and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Osnos has contributed to the NPR radio show This American Life and the PBS television show Frontline.
(2014), Osnos' first book, follows the lives of individuals swept up in China's "radical transformation", Osnos said, in an interview on Fresh Air in June 2014. He said Chinese Communist Party leaders abandoned "the scripture of socialism and they held on to the saints of socialism." In addition to the National Book Award, the book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. Osnos left China in 2013, to write about politics and foreign affairs at The New Yorker. Among other topics, he examined the politics behind a chemical leak in West Virginia and twice profiled Vice President Joe Biden, which became the basis for a book. According to Publishers Weekly, his book, Joe Biden constituted "a portrait of the candidate that's smart and evocative."
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury (2021) follows three dissimilar communities in the US and demonstrates how their interconnections reveal "seismic changes in American politics and culture."Harvard Book Store, Review of Wildland: The Making of America's Fury, New Hardcover - Nonfiction / Politics, Harvard.com, accessed 2021.11.07 The book, a New York Times bestseller, focused on a period of political dissolution bounded by the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.David Shipler and Daniel Zwerdling, What do poor blacks, hedge fund executives, and coal miners have in common?, Interview of Evan Osnos, Two Reporters, October 2021
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