Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1995 and a staff writer since 1997. From 2005 to 2010, he was editor of The Paris Review, succeeding the late George Plimpton. Gourevitch is the author of A Cold Case (2001), Standard Operating Procedure (with Erroll Morris, 2008) and We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the George K. Polk Book Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award and the Guardian First Book Award. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Gourevitch has also written for Granta, Harper's and The New York Review of Books, and served first as New York bureau chief, then as Cultural Editor of The Forward. His short stories have also appeared in a number of journals. He lives in Brooklyn.