Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch
Gourevitch in 2006
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationChoate Rosemary Hall
Alma materCornell University
Columbia University
Occupation(s)Author, journalist
Notable workWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998)
SpouseLarissa MacFarquhar

Philip Gourevitch (born 1961), an American author and journalist, is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and a former editor of The Paris Review.

His most recent book is The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (2008), an account of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison under the American occupation. He became widely known for his first book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998), which tells the story of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.