Christian Davenport

CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT is a staff writer at the Washington Post with more than twenty-five years on the paper, covering space and the defense industry for the Financial desk. His recent books include The Space Barons and As You Were.

Davenport received an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in journalism, was part of teams that were Pulitzer Prize finalists three times, won a Peabody Award in 2010 for coverage of veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury, and won an Emmy Award for his work on SpaceX’s first crewed mission with the Discovery and Science Channels.

When not writing, Davenport has reported from embedded positions with the military, including the Virginia Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment in Iraq. That experience informs his coverage of defense and veterans' affairs.

Christian lives in Washington, D.C.

Christian Davenport’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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