Jere van dyk biography sample
Jere van dyk.
Jere van dyk biography sample
Jere Van Dyk
Pulitzer-nominated journalist, expert on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East
"If you want to read an amazing book, check out Captive.
What this reporter lived through is, I think, pretty much the most frightening thing a journalist could be subjected to... Please read it."
— Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author of War, The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont.
Jere Van Dyk is a journalist, writer and hostage advocate.
In the early 1980s, working as a correspondent for The New York Times, he lived with the mujahideen (holy warriors) in Afghanistan as they fought against the Soviet Red Army, an experience that was recapped in his Pulitzer Prize-nominated articles, and in his first book, “In Afghanistan: An American Odyssey.” From 1987 - 1995, he was an explorer for National Geographic Magazine, traveling the length and finding the source of the Brahmaputra and Amazon rivers, among other assignments.