Tim McGirk is a former bureau chief and correspondent for Time magazine who has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the hunt for al-Qaeda. He was also posted in Mexico and China, where the events of his first novel take place.

  His exposé on the massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha by U.S. Marines won the UK Foreign Press Association’s Print Story of the Year in 2006. His journalism has also appeared in National Geographic, The Believer, Esquire (UK), and The Spectator. McGirk is author of “Wicked Lady, Salvador Dali’s Muse,” published in the UK.

  Born in Bogotá, Colombia, McGirk currently lives in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife, and within sight of the Pacific Ocean.

 

Tim is the author of The Wondrous Elixir of the Two Chinese Lovers. ​

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Learn more about Tim McGirk via his website: www.timmcgirk.com