About me
Dan Barry is a longtime reporter and columnist for The
New York Times. The author of several books, he writes
on myriad topics, including sports, culture, New York
City, and the nation.
Since joining The Times in September 1995, Barry has
covered many major events, including the World Trade
Center catastrophe, Hurricane Katrina, and the
coronavirus epidemic. His honors include the 2003
American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for
deadline reporting, for his coverage of the first
anniversary of Sept. 11; the 2005 Mike Berger Award,
from the Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism; the 2015 Best American Newspaper Narrative
Award; the 2019 American Society of Newspaper Editors
Award for feature writing; three Emmys for
documentaries produced by The Times; the Eugene
O'Neill Award; and the inaugural Pete Hamill Award for
Journalistic Excellence, in 2021. He has also been
nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice: once
in 2006 for his slice-of-life reports from hurricane-
battered New Orleans and from New York, and again in
2010 for his coverage of the Great Recession and its
effects on the lives and relationships of America.
He previously worked at The Providence Journal, where,
as a member of its investigative team, he shared a George
Polk Award in 1992, for a series on the causes of a state
banking crisis, and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994, for an
investigation into Rhode Island’s court system that led to
various reforms and the criminal indictment of the chief
justice of the state’s Supreme Court.
Barry has also written This Land: America, Lost and
Found, a collection of his “This Land” columns; The Boys
in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the
Heartland; Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and
Baseball’s Longest Game, which received the PEN/ESPN
Award for Literary Sports Writing; City Lights, a
collection of his “About New York” columns; and Pull
Me Up: A Memoir, published in 2004. He has also edited
a Library of America volume dedicated to the journalism
of Jimmy Breslin, and his writings have appeared in
several anthologies.
