Mitch Zuckoff

Mitchell Zuckoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling nonfiction author whose books reveal details of some of the most important events of the 21st century. From 9/11 to the attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi to the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Zuckoff provides authoritative accounts through expert reporting and narrative storytelling.

He also writes deep narrative history, including bestselling accounts of two extraordinary rescue missions during World War II and the rollicking true story of the original Ponzi Scheme.

Zuckoff’s latest book, “The Secret Gate,” tells the incredible true story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan-and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American diplomat engineered a daring escape. “Reads like a thriller . . . The Secret Gate is a fast-paced escape narrative, but it is also a morally complex interrogation.”-The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year)

He covered 9/11 for The Boston Globe and wrote the lead news story on the day of the attacks. Years in the making, his bestselling book “Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11” is a spellbinding, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, uplifting narrative that is an indelible portrait of 9/11. Zuckoff masterfully weaves together the interrelated strands of the events in New York City; in Washington, D.C.; and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to create the first minute-by-minute history of that horrendous day.

Zuckoff is now the Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies at Boston University. All told, he has written nine works of narrative nonfiction, including the #1 New York Times bestseller “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi,” which became the basis of the Paramount Pictures movie of the same name.

As a member of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting. Zuckoff’s honors include the Livingston Award for International Reporting, the Winship/PEN New England Award for Nonfiction, the Heywood Broun Memorial Award, and the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. He lives outside Boston with his family.

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