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Tom Reiss

American author, historian, and journalist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1964 · age 62

Tom Reiss is an American author, historian, and journalist. He is the author of three nonfiction books, the latest of which is The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (2012), which received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

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2013PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyAwardPrix du GuesclinAwardPulitzer Prize for BiographyAward1964Born5 May 1964

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Pulitzer Prize for Biography2013
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography2013
Prix du Guesclin2013

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His previous books are Führer-Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Nazi (1996), the first inside exposé of the European neo-Nazi movement; and The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life (2005), which became an international bestseller. As a journalist, Reiss has written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

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Born 1964 · age 62

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