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

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

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

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

and

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

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscriptio ...

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

Florida election recount The 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida was a period of vote recounting in Florida that occurred during the weeks after Election Day in the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. T ...

in 2000 and the

September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...

the Pentagon The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II. As ...

.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 Hurricane Katrina was a powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. ...

and the rebuilding of New Orleans.Meanwhile: Picking and choosing history in Berlin
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 Souad Mekhennet is an investigative journalist who has covered some of the most challenging stories of our times for ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Daily Beast'', ''International Herald Tribune'', ''Frankfurter Allgemeine ...

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, kil ...

Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

, 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

South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the ...

, the

Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

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

Germanwings Flight 9525 Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Luftha ...

plane crash, the financing of

ISIS Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom () as one of the main characters of the Osiris myth, in which she resurrects her sla ...

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

Personal

Kulish grew up in

Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city (United States), independent city in Northern Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately south of Washington, D.C., D.C. The city's population of 159,467 at the 2020 ...

and

Arlington, Virginia Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., the nati ...

. He is fluent in German and was a

Fulbright Scholar The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the peopl ...

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kulish, Nicholas 1975 births Living people Columbia College (New York) alumni Journalists from Washington, D.C. American male journalists Journalists from Arlington County, Virginia The New York Times journalists