Sampling of Stuff


Live and Let Die
How a small, simple feeding tube triggered a global war over when it is, finally, time to die.
LOST ON EARTH
Harrowing tales from the Cold War's collapse. "Reads like a volume of beautifully imagined short stories," says Salon.
Power of Parental Grief
Sad, driven parents make for good drama, but often bad laws.

Biography

Mark Fritz is an award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent. He covered the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Chechnya, Liberia, Bosnia, etc.

As an Associated Press editor on the international desk, he filed the first bulletin on the fall of the Berlin Wall. He subsequently was named East Berlin correspondent, then West Africa bureau chief.

For his Rwanda coverage, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1995 and his dispatches were selected for the book Best Newspaper Writing: 1995 and The Best of Best Newspaper Writing: 20th Anniversary Edition.

His book, LOST ON EARTH: Nomads of the New World (hardcover, Little, Brown; trade paperback, Routledge) was named one of the top six non-fiction books of 1999 by Salon.com.

His work is featured in at least a half dozen textbooks on writing and reporting. He was in 1995 the first recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ inaugural Jesse Laventhol Award for Deadline Writing. He was twice a visiting lecturer at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and has appeared on CNN, MNSBC and numerous other broadcast outlets.

Besides working abroad for the AP, Fritz was a charter member of the news agency’s computer-assisted investigative reporting team and a roving foreign correspondent for the International Desk in New York.

He also was a New York-based national writer for the Los Angeles Times, and subsequently an investigative reporter for the Boston Globe and then the The Wall Street Journal. His topics have ranged from bioethics to generational conflict to the fluidity of a nation’s borders.

Fritz is a native of Detroit, Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Dayton, Abidjan, Berlin, Kalamazoo, Raleigh and Darfur. He is represented by ICM and is currently writing a novel and another non-fiction book about one of the least-known aspects of modern warfare.