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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 PENAmerican Center. He is an Orwell fellow and a Guggenheim fellow.
He lives in New York City.