Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author and ordained Presbyterian minister. Hedges has taught college credit courses for several years to students in the B.A. program in New Jersey prisons through Princeton University and Rutgers University. 

He has written 12 books, including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. His other books include "America: The Farewell Tour" (2018), "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt" (2015), “Death of the Liberal Class” (2010), “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and the best-selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (2008). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and has sold over 400,000 copies. He writes a weekly column for the website Truthdig in Los Angeles, run by Robert Scheer, and hosts a show, On Contact, on RT America.

Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries during his work for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.

Hedges was part of a New York Times team of reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. 

Hedges holds  B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University.  He also studied classics at Harvard, including ancient Greek and Latin.  Hedges was awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry.  He has taught at Princeton University, Columbia University, New York University and the University of Toronto.  In addition to English, Latin and ancient Greek, he speaks Arabic, Spanish and French.