Anand Gopal

Anand Gopal is an American journalist and scholar of modern Afghanistan, educated at Yale and Oxford, and a former war correspondent. His acclaimed book No Good Men Among the Living chronicles the lives of ordinary Afghans and their struggle for justice through the fall of the Taliban, the American occupation and its aftermath, and won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.

Gopal has reported across the Middle East and South Asia for major magazines. His second book The Aftermath addressed the U.S. withdrawal and the fate of a Taliban-run Afghanistan. He is a fellow of the New America and a professor of journalism, and is regarded as one of his generation's most important chroniclers of Afghanistan.