Mark Fritz
Mark Fritz is a war correspondent and author. A native of Detroit and graduate of Wayne State University,[1] he won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1995 for his stories concerning the Rwandan genocide.
Journalism career
As a staff writer for the
Boston Globe, and as an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal
.
Before returning to the AP in 2003, Fritz left the news business to perform humanitarian work in the Darfur region of Sudan for the International Rescue Committee, and conduct war crimes investigations for Human Rights Watch in Uganda.
Fritz's nonfiction book, Lost on Earth, chronicles the stories of people uprooted by the wars that broke out at the end of the Cold War. He is also the author of the novel, Permanent Deadline.
Works
- Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1999, ISBN 0415926092
- Permanent Deadline. Create Space. 2014 ISBN 9781495318849
- The Mammoth Book Of War Correspondence 2001 New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-7867-0866-2
Recognition
- 1995 - Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for stories concerning the Rwandan genocide.[2]
- 1995 - American Society of Newspaper Editors inaugural Jesse Laventhol Award for Deadline Writing[3]
- 1999 - Lost on Earth named one of the top five non-fiction books by Salon.com.[4]
References
- ^ "Mark Fritz Names Correspondent at Grand Rapids, Mich". Apnewsarchive.com. 1985-12-09. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ Mitchell, Bill (2002-09-01). "Advice from Best Newspaper Writing Winners – Mark Fritz | Poynter". Poynter. Archived from the original on 2014-01-12. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ Salon.com 1999 book awards
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