Philip Gourevitch (born 1961) is an American author and journalist. He has written on a variety of subjects, particularly ethnic conflicts around the world, and is probably best known for his first book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, which tells the story of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (ISBN 0-312-24335-9) is a 1998 non-fiction book about the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and others in Rwanda in 1994, written by The New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch. ... The skulls of victims show gashes and signs of violence The Rwandan Genocide was the slaughter of an estimated 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, mostly carried out by two extremist Hutu militia groups, the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi, during a period of 100 days from April 6th through mid...

Gourevitch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania into a Jewish family. His parents and grandparents were European refugees from The Holocaust. Gourevitch spent most of his childhood in Middletown, Connecticut. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Official website: http://www. ... Jews (Hebrew: יהודים, Yehudim) are followers of Judaism or, more generally, members of the Jewish people (also known as the Jewish nation, or the Children of Israel), an ethno-religious group descended from the ancient Israelites and converts who joined their religion. ... Selection at the Auschwitz ramp in 1944, where the Nazis chose whom to kill immediately and whom to use as slave labor or for medical experimentation, such as those of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. ... Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the south-central part of the state, 16 miles (26 km) south of Hartford. ...

Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college. He attended Cornell University. He took a break for three years in order to concentrate fully on writing. He did eventually graduate in 1986. From 1989 to 1992 he attended a writing program at Columbia University and received a degree in fiction writing. While Gourevitch went on to publish some short fiction in literary magazines, most of Gourevitch's published writing has been nonfiction. Cornell University is a research university located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... Fiction is storytelling of imagined events and stands in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims about reality. ...

Gourevitch worked for the Jewish magazine The Forward from 1992 to 1997, first as New York bureau chief and then as cultural editor. Since 1997 he has been a writer for the New Yorker magazine. He has also written for many other magazines and newspapers. The Forward is a Jewish-American newspaper published in New York. ... New Yorker may refer to: the magazine, The New Yorker a resident of New York City the hotel New Yorker a named passenger train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad between Detroit, MI and New York, NY This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might...

Gourevitch became interested in Rwanda in 1994 as the Holocaust Memorial Museum was opening and he saw that its founders were determined that genocide should never happen again, while genocide had in fact just happened again and not enough was being written about it. Between 1995 and 1997, he took six trips to Rwanda, to experience the country for himself and conduct interviews. His book We Wish to Inform You... was published in 1998. The movie Hotel Rwanda is based on part of the book. Exterior of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a national institution located adjacent to The National Mall in Washington, DC, dedicated to documenting, studying, and interpreting the history of the Holocaust. ... Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 drama film directed by Terry George based on the Rwandan Genocide. ...

Gourevitch published a second book in 2001. Titled A Cold Case, it is about an unsolved murder in New York.

In 2004 Gourevitch was assigned to cover the U.S. Presidential election for the New Yorker. He was a strong supporter of John Kerry. Presently, he is the editor of The Paris Review. Presidential election results map. ... John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ...