Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He is the author of six non-fiction books, including Mukiwa, which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book The Fear was selected by The New Yorker as a Best Book of the Year. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia and served as President of the PEN American Centre. He is an Orwell Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in New York City. His latest book, Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars, is a memoir focusing on middle age and his changing relationships with the three women who shaped his life.

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