Bill
Berkeley is a reporter on the investigative staff of The
New York Times and the author of The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race,
Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa (Basic Books, 2001). He was
previously an editorial writer at the Times, and for more than
a decade he reported on African affairs for The Atlantic Monthly, The
New Republic, The New York Times Magazine and The Washington Post.
He teaches writing at Columbia University's School of International and
Public Affairs.
Peter
Maass is a contributing writer at The New York Times
Magazine and also writes for The New Yorker, The New Republic,
The Atlantic Monthly, and other publications. His book, Love Thy
Neighbor: A Story of War (Knopf, 1996), chronicles his experiences
covering the Bosnian conflict for The Washington Post. It won The
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for nonfiction) and the Overseas Press
Club Book Prize, and was a finalist for several other literary awards.
Foreign editions have been published in Britain, Germany, Bosnia, South
Korea and Taiwan.
Both writers have also contributed essays to The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention (Basic Books, 2002), edited by Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner.
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