William Finnegan (New York, 1952) is a writer and journalist. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1987, he has written on topics as diverse as apartheid, the Balkan war, Latin American politics, poverty in the United States and surfing. His articles and reports have received various awards and distinctions. He is the author of five books: Crossing the Line (1986), Dateline Soweto (1988), A Complicated War (1992), Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (1998) and The Savage Years (2015, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography 2016).