Nicholas Matthew Kulish (born 1975) is an author and journalist who reports for ''

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''. Since March 2014, he has worked as an investigative journalist based in New York. He is the author of two books, the satirical novel ''Last One In'' and the nonfiction book ''The Eternal Nazi''.

Life and work

Born in Washington, D.C., Kulish was educated at

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, graduating in 1997. He worked a series of writing and Internet jobs in

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and

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before becoming first a news assistant, then a reporter, at ''

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''. As a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau he covered the

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in 2000 and the

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.Nicholas Kulish's web site: Biography
/ref> In 2003, he was sent to report on the invasion of Iraq for ''The Wall Street Journal''. This influenced the writing of his first novel ''Last One In'' (2007). Kulish joined the ''Times'' as a member of the editorial board in September 2005. There he wrote editorials about business, culture, Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding of New Orleans.
Nytimes.com. February 27, 2006. Retrieved on 2011-10-08. From August 2007 to May 2013 he was the newspaper's Berlin bureau chief, covering Central and Eastern Europe. While Kulish was based in Berlin he and his colleague Souad Mekhennet uncovered the hiding place of most-wanted Nazi fugitive

Aribert Heim Aribert Ferdinand Heim (28 June 191410 August 1992), also known as Dr. Death and Butcher of Mauthausen, was an Austrian ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) doctor. During World War II, he served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, killin ...

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metr ...

, where he had died in hiding in 1992. He and Mekhennet, his co-author for ''The Eternal Nazi'' (2014), were later detained by the Egyptian secret police while covering the uprising there in 2011. In East Africa he served as foreign correspondent from June 2013 to March 2014. He covered

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, the

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and beyond. He and other New York Times reporters did multiple in-depth articles on the

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plane crash, the financing of

ISIS Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kin ...

, and alleged abuses by Navy Seal Teams 2 and 6.

Personal

Kulish grew up in

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and

Arlington, Virginia Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county ...

. He is fluent in German and was a

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in Berlin.

Bibliography

* ''Last One In.'' New York: Harper Perennial, 2007. * ''The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim'' New York: Doubleday, 2014.

Notes

External links

Nicholas Kulish's web site

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