Patrick Cockburn

About The Author

Patrick Cockburn is Iraq correspondent for the Independent in London. He has received the Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting, the James Cameron Award, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism. He is the author of Muqtada, about war and rebellion in Iraq; The Occupation (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007); The Broken Boy, a memoir; and with Andrew Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein.

Books by Patrick Cockburn

Henry's Demons

A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness

By Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn

Now in paperback, the exceptionally well-reviewed, “intimate and authoritative…outstanding double memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) about schizophrenia written by an eminent journalist and his son.

On a cold February day two months after his twentiet...

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Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq

By Patrick Cockburn

Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World.