David Zucchino

David Zucchino is an American journalist and author.
Career.
Zucchino was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the Feature Writing category in 1989 for his series "Being Black in South Africa", written for "The Philadelphia Inquirer".
In 2020, Zucchino published "Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy", a book about the Wilmington insurrection of 1898. The book was an Amazon "Best of January" selection; a "Book of the Week" at "Publishers Weekly", the "New York Post", and "Literary Hub"; and a "Library Journal" "2020 Title to Watch".
As of 2020, Zucchino was a contributing writer for "The New York Times".