David Zucchino


David Zucchino is an American journalist and author.

Career

Zucchino was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the Feature Writing category in 1989 for his series Being Black in South Africa, written for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
In 2020, Zucchino published Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, a book about the Wilmington insurrection of 1898. The book was an Amazon "Best of January" selection; a "Book of the Week" at Publishers Weekly, the New York Post, and Literary Hub; and a Library Journal "2020 Title to Watch".
As of 2020, Zucchino was contributing writer for The New York Times.