Mark Fritz

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Mark Fritz is a journalist and author noted for coverage of Africa and Germany. In 1995 he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for stories concerning the Rwandan Genocide. He also reported on the reunification of Germany.^[1] His nonfiction book Lost on Earth tales the stories of refugees.

As a staff writer for The Associated Press, he also covered the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Chechnya, and Liberia, among many others.

For his Rwanda coverage, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1995 ^[2] and his dispatches were selected for the book Best Newspaper Writing: 1995 and The Best of Best Newspaper Writing: 20th Anniversary Edition. ^[3] His book, LOST ON EARTH: Nomads of the New Order (hardcover, Little, Brown; trade paperback, Routledge) was named one of the top five non-fiction books of 1999 by Salon.com.^[4]

As an AP 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.^[5] Among numerous other awards, he was in 1995 the first recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ inaugural Jesse Laventhol Award for Deadline Writing.^[6] He was twice a visiting lecturer at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and has appeared on CNN, MNSBC and numerous other broadcast outlets.

He is a native of Detroit and operates out of both New York City and Raleigh, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife, Carrie Hartley. He is represented by ICM and is currently writing a novel and another non-fiction book about war.