Nick McDonell is a novelist and journalist. Born in New York City in 1984, he studied at Harvard and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. His work has been published in twenty three countries and appeared on bestseller lists around the world.
The Council of Animals
(Henry Holt and Co., 2021)
The Bodies In Person
(Blue Rider Press, 2018)
The Civilisation of Perpetual Movement
(Hurst, 2016)
Green on Blue
(TIME e-book, 2013)
The End of Major Combat Operations
(McSweeney's, 2010)
An Expensive Education
(Grove, 2009)
Guerre à Harvard
(Flammarion, 2008)
The Third Brother
(Grove, 2005)
Twelve
(Grove, 2003)
Diary
The London Review of Books,
March 2020
The Widow's Network
Kindle Single, January 2018
Diary
The London Review of Books,
May 2016
Dollars to Disasters: The Gamble of Emergency Relief
newyorker.com, August 2015
Green on Blue (Excerpt)
TIME,
June 2013
Bullets Fly Around Provincial Peace Talks in Afghanistan
TIME.com, November 2012
Ten Years
n+1, September 2011
"Obama, les illusions (e)perdues”
Liberation Next, January 30, 2010
The U.S. Military: Mediating Bewteen Kurds and Arabs
TIME.com, March 24, 2009
The Source
Huffington Post, April 29, 2009
Can a ‘Loyalty Oath’ Ensure the Allegiance of Afghans?
TIME.com, November 25, 2009
In Ras al-Koor, the Iraqi Police Is More Feared than U.S. Soldiers
TIME.com, March 15, 2009
The Vanishing Booksellers of Baghdad
TIME.com, March 5, 2009
“The Normal Years”
Die Zeit, November, 2008
The Activist: Alex de Waal Among the War Criminals
Harper's, November 2008
Nick is represented by Eric Simonoff at WME, Tiffany Ward at CAA, and Bob Bookman.