Philip Gourevitch | |
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5x7.jpg) Gourevitch in 2006 | |
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Education | Choate Rosemary Hall |
| Alma mater | Cornell University Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Author, journalist |
| Notable work | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998) |
| Spouse | Larissa MacFarquhar |
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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.