Nicholas Schmidle

journalist, author

Nicholas Schmidle is a fellow at the New America Foundation. He writes for the *New York Times Magazine*, *Slate*, *The New Republic*, *Smithsonian*, and the* Virginia Quarterly Review*, among other publications, and received the 2008 Kurt Schork Award for freelance journalism. As a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, he lived and reported in Pakistan for two years. Schmidle is a graduate of James Madison University and American University. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife.