Jeffrey Gettleman

About the Author

Jeffrey Gettleman is an award-winning journalist and author whose reporting has taken him across Africa, Asia, and other regions shaped by conflict, political upheaval, and human resilience. A former New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner, he is known for combining vivid scene-setting with careful attention to the lives behind major global events. His writing explores love, danger, displacement, and survival with empathy and narrative urgency. He is the author of Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival, a deeply personal account of reporting, relationships, and endurance.