Tim Weiner

Tim Weiner is, to me, one of the great practitioners of accountability journalism. Trained at Columbia and armed with a Pulitzer and a National Book Award for Legacy of Ashes, he turns patient reporting into history that institutions would rather keep buried. Anyone can chase a headline; few have the discipline to document the inner workings of something like the CIA with that kind of rigor. I admire the sheer doggedness of it, the willingness to verify and build a case fact by fact. Reading him always reminds me what serious nonfiction is actually for.

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Name (English)

Tim Weiner

Name (Japanese)

ティム・ワイナー

Reading

てぃむ・わいなー

Born

June 20, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

White Plains, New York, United States

Occupation

journalist / non-fiction writer / writer / foreign correspondent

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

University

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Awards & achievements

• 2007 National Book Award
• 2007 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Weiner
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239474

Tags

• New York
• journalist
• non-fiction writer
• writer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.