Philip Gourevitch
American journalist; New Yorker staff writer; author of a book on the Rwandan genocide.
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- Philip Gourevitch is an American author and journalist, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and a former editor of The Paris Review.
- His first book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998), tells the story of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
- It won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Key facts
- Born
- 1961, Philadelphia1
- Education
- Cornell University (1986); MFA in fiction, Columbia University (1992)1
- Books
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998); A Cold Case (2001); The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (2008)1
- Earlier
- The Forward, 1991 to 1993, New York bureau chief then cultural editor1
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