Mr Steve Fainaru
Steve Fainaru is a correspondent for The Washington Post's foreign staff. He has covered the war in Iraq since 2004. He won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting this year (2008) for his stories on private armies in Iraq, which included investigations into Blackwater and other private security firms. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. Steve has worked for The Post since 2000, previously covering civil liberties and the fight against terrorism and serving as an investigative reporter focusing on sports. Previously he worked at the Boston Globe for 11 years, covering the Boston Red Sox, Wall Street and Latin America. He served as The Globe’s Latin America bureau chief from 1995-1998.
Steve, who is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the co-author of "The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba and the Search for the American Dream," which chronicled the odyssey of pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez and his defection from post-Cold War Cuba. He is currently working on another book, “Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries in Iraq,” due out this fall.
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