Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Chandrasekaran in 2015
Alma mater	Stanford University
Genre	non-fiction
Notable awards	Samuel Johnson Prize

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994.^[1]

Life

He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, where he became editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily and earned a degree in political science.^[2]

At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. During 2003, the Post put his stories on the front page 138 times.^[3] In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,^[4] and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Chandrasekaran's 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize^[5] and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction.^[6] The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.^[7]

References

Bibliography

• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Knopf. 2006. ISBN 9780307278838.
• Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307957146.
• For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice. New York: Vintage. 2014. ISBN 9781101872826. (with Howard Schultz)

External links

• Official page
• Interview with The Guardian
• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • C-SPAN Q&A interview with Chandrasekaran on Imperial Life in the Emerald City, September 24, 2006