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2 new york city , new york , usa pulitzer prize 2013 240px american '' black count '' führer-ex '' '' the orientalist '' '' the 05 may 1964 historical biography tom reiss portrait paris1.jpg tom reiss
 tom reiss writer , historian , journalist harvard college university of houston
tom reiss

tom reiss -lrb- born may 5 , 1964 -rrb- is an american author , historian , and journalist .
he is the author of three nonfiction books , the latest of which is '' '' -lrb- 2012 -rrb- , which received the 2013 pulitzer prize for biography or autobiography .
his previous books are `` führer-ex : memoirs of a former neo-nazi '' -lrb- 1996 -rrb- , the first inside exposé of the european neo-nazi movement ; and `` the orientalist : solving the mystery of a strange and dangerous life '' -lrb- 2005 -rrb- , which became an international bestseller .
as a journalist , reiss has written for `` the new yorker '' , `` the wall street journal '' , and `` the new york times '' .
