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. Godwin has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia, and served as President of the PEN America Center. He is an Orwell fellow and a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City.

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• Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa (2004)
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