Background
Osnos was born in London, when his parents, Susan (née Sherer) Osnos and Peter L.W. Osnos, were visiting from Moscow, where his father was assigned as a correspondent for the Washington Post.
Osnos was born in London, when his parents, Susan (née Sherer) Osnos and Peter L.W. Osnos, were visiting from Moscow, where his father was assigned as a correspondent for the Washington Post.
Osnos graduated from Greenwich High School in 1994. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1998.
He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, best known for his coverage of China. In the summer of 1999, Osnos joined the Chicago Tribune as a metro reporter, and, later, a national and foreign correspondent. He was based in New York at the time of the September 11 attacks.
In 2002, he was assigned to the Middle East, where he covered the Iraq War and reported from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, and elsewhere.
In 2005, he became the China correspondent. He was a guest on the Colbert Report in 2007 and 2011 to discuss China"s changes.
Osnos joined The New Yorker in September 2008 and served as the magazine’s China Correspondent until 2013. Osnos has contributed to the National Public Radio radio show This American Life and the Public Broadcasting Service television show Frontline.
As The New Yorker"s China correspondent, Evan maintained a regular blog called "Letter from China", and wrote articles about China’s young neoconservatives, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and the Wenzhou train crash.
Osnos is among those featured Episodes 11 (Contradictions) and 12 (Follow the Money) of the University of Southern California United States.-China Institute"s Assignment:China series. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (2014), Osnos" first book, follows the lives of individuals swept up in China"s "radical transformation", Osnos said, in an interview on Fresh Air in June 2014. Osnos left China in 2013, to write about politics and foreign affairs at The New Yorker.
Among other topics, he has examined the politics behind a chemical leak in West Virginia and profiled Vice President Joe Biden.
Osnos is married to Sarabeth Berman, a graduate of Barnard College. Since July 2013, they have lived in Washington, District of Columbia Osnos" Chinese name is 欧逸文 (Ōu Yìwén).
He said Communist Party leaders abandoned "the scripture of socialism and they held on to the saints of socialism." The book won the 2014 National Book Award for nonfiction.