Mark Fritz

Mark Fritz is an award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent. As a staff writer for The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe, he covered the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Lower Manhattan, Somalia, Chechnya, Bosnia and Liberia, among others.

For his Rwanda coverage, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1995. His book, LOST ON EARTH: Nomads of the New World (hardcover, Little, Brown; trade paperback, Routledge) was among the five nonfiction winners of the Salon.com book awards in 1999. In 2004, he traveled northern Uganda as a war crimes investigator for Human Rights Watch, and performed humanitarian work for the International Rescue Committee in the Sudan, mainly in Darfur.

Aside from specializing in international conflicts, the author has written extensively about espionage, the role of propaganda in politics, the generational conflicts triggered by the aging population, a variety of immigration issues, and the impact of changing demographics on the environment.