Carmen Gentile Biography
Carmen Gentile is an American journalist, novelist, and public speaker who focuses on conflict and development issues.
Carmen Gentile Age
He was born on June 21, 1974, in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Carmen is 49 years old as of June 2023.
Carmen Gentile Education
He went to Shadyside Academy. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Islamic studies from Villanova University.
Carmen Gentile Career
He is the author of the memoir Blindsided by the Taliban, a darkly humorous account of his odd injury while embedded with American troops near the Pakistani border in Afghanistan. Gentile was wounded in the side of the head with a rocket-propelled grenade that did not detonate, blinding him in his right eye and crushing part of his skull in September 2010. Gentile was going through a remote area in hilly eastern Afghanistan with American and Afghan troops on September 9, 2010. Gentile was injured while reporting for CBS – he was a freelance radio reporter who also contributed footage – when an assailant fired a rocket-propelled grenade from a short distance away.
Gentile was hit in the side of the head by the ordnance, which blinded him in his right eye and crushed bones in his cheek. The missile then ricocheted off Gentile and struck Lt. Derek Zotto, a rookie platoon leader, in the elbow. Gentile was able to film his extremely rare injury. He underwent multiple surgeries, including one at a US military facility at Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield. Gentile returned to Afghanistan and resumed front-line reporting after many procedures and months of recovery, as detailed in his critically acclaimed book Blindsided by the Taliban (2018). Gentile has been featured on NBC Today[5, CNN Sunday Morning, C-Span, and other notable shows since its publication. Gentile has recently combined storytelling from places such as Iraq with his passion for motorcycling, writing for publications such as Motorcyclist and Postindustrial, the media outlet Gentile founded in 2018 that covers the Rust Belt, Appalachia, and Postindustrial Communities around the world.
Carmen Gentile Awards
Gentile has won the Galloway Award, named after UPI combat correspondent and McClatchy Newspapers columnist Joseph Galloway, for a Salon story that includes an excerpt from Blindsided by the Taliban and is described as “straight-forward and harrowing.”
Carmen Gentile Books
Gentile, Carmen (March 6, 2018). Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist’s Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss, Skyhorse Publishing.
Carmen Gentile Net Worth
Carmen has an estimated net worth of 1.5 million dollars.