Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Neil MacFarquhar

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
More: www.nytimes.com/by/neil-macfarquhar
Neil Graham MacFarquhar is an American writer. He grew up in Libya and graduated from Deerfield Academy and then Stanford University in international relations in 1982. After graduation, he returned to the Middle East, became fluent in Arabic, and covered the region for the Associated Press and then as The New York Times bureau chief in Cairo. He is also author of The Sand Café (2006) and The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East (2009). Currently, MacFarquhar is writing for The New York Times in Moscow. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for International Reporting as part of The New York Times team that reported on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Russia’s power abroad, revealing techniques that included assassination, online harassment, and the planting of incriminating evidence on opponents.

Studios

New Jersey

Neil MacFarquhar worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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