Mark Fritz

Mark Fritz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and award-winning author. Fritz has been a national or international writer for the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal. He covered the unification of Germany, collapse of the Soviet Union, and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Chechnya, Liberia, Bosnia, Mauritania, Mali, Lower Manhattan, and others. He's had stints as a war crimes investigator in Uganda and as a relief worker in the...See more

Mark Fritz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and award-winning author. Fritz has been a national or international writer for the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal. He covered the unification of Germany, collapse of the Soviet Union, and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Chechnya, Liberia, Bosnia, Mauritania, Mali, Lower Manhattan, and others. He's had stints as a war crimes investigator in Uganda and as a relief worker in the Sudanese region of Darfur. His work is featured in a variety of textbooks and anthologies, including The Best of Best Newspaper Writing: 25th Anniversary Edition and 101 Masterpieces: The Mammoth Book of Journalism. Mark Fritz is the author of Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World, winner of the Salon Book Award for non-fiction. "Although Fritz's subject matter is cruel, his book is strangely delightful," Salon wrote. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his coverage of the genocide in Rwanda. See less