Mark Fritz is a war correspondent and author. Fritz won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1995 for his stories about the Rwandan genocide. He's currently writing CRASHING IN AMERICA , a memoir.
Fritz interned at the Detroit News in 1977, which included working weekends at the city's legendary--and brutal--1300 Beubien police beat. He spent nearly six years at the Kalamazoo (Mich) Gazette. He was a staff writer for the AP from 1984-1997, and again in 2003. He also was a national writer and investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and and the Wall Street Journal.
Fritz reported on the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Chechnya, and Liberia, among others. As an investigative reporter for the Boston Globe, Fritz filed from the scene of the World Trade Center's destruction. As an AP editor on the Foreign Desk, he filed the first U.S. "A-wire" bulletin on the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.
Fritz subsequently was named East Berlin correspondent, then West Africa correspondent. He later worked as a New York-based national writer for the Los Angeles Times (1997—2000), followed by stints as an investigative reporter at the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal.
He left the news business for a stretch to write books and perform humanitarian work in the Darfur region of Sudan for the International Rescue Committee, and conduct war crimes investigations for Human Rights Watch in Uganda.
Fritz's nonfiction book, "Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World," won a Salon Book Award. He is also the author of the novel "Permanent Deadline," a black comedy about war and Big Media.
Among other honors, Fritz won the deadline writing awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) and the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) in 1995. His work is cited in numerous textbooks and journalism anthologies.
