Mark Fritz

Mark Fritz

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Mark Fritz is an award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent. As a staff writer for The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe, he covered the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wars in Rwanda, Somalia, Chechnya, the Persian Gulf and Liberia, among many others

For his Rwanda coverage, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1995 and his dispatches were selected for the book Best Newspaper Writing: 1995. His book, LOST ON EARTH: Nomads of the New Order (hardcover, Little, Brown; trade paperback, Routledge) won the Salon.com book award in 1999. His work is featured in three textbooks on literary non-fiction.

His range of expertise includes recognizing national trends in myriad fields -- from bioethics to aging to mental health -- and capturing the nuances of foreign conflicts. He is a native of Detroit and operates out of both New York City and Raleigh, North Carolina. He is represented by ICM.

Blog Entries by Mark Fritz

Wright and Wrong

Posted May 19, 2008 | 01:43 PM (EST)

RALEIGH, N.C. --- If Barack Obama's crushing win in North Carolina and near victory in Indiana do, indeed, derail Hillary Clinton's scorched-earth struggle for Democratic souls, roughly 100,000 people can finally stop spinning in their graves.

I've been watching how news agencies have been handling a pair of pratfalls that...

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Olypmic Delusions, China Corruption a Perfect Marriage

Posted April 3, 2008 | 10:33 AM (EST)

Ignore China: The Olympiad is Already Broken Beyond Repair

Forget Tibet, discard Darfur, take your mind off Tiananmen Square, please, for just a moment. Consider this concept: a cabal of gangsters wearing communist clown masks run a ruthless capitalist economy (which is poisoning our world, by the way.)

Yeah, the...

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Carve Up Iraq: Obsolete Borders and the Myth of Sovereignty

Posted March 16, 2008 | 11:54 PM (EST)

Consider a country so fractured by regional and religious feuds that the most efficient entities are the organized crime rings cashing in on the chaos.

This was the dilemma facing NATO negotiators when they met in Dayton, Ohio, in 1995 to stem the seemingly unstoppable bloodshed in Bosnia....

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