Jonathan Blitzer
Journalist and New Yorker staff writer
Jonathan Blitzer is an American journalist on staff at The New Yorker. He wrote Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, a book on the US and Central America.
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About Jonathan Blitzer
Jonathan Blitzer is an American journalist and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Immigration and foreign policy are the subjects he reports on there. Articles by him have also run in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Oxford American and The Nation. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis came out in 2024. It chronicles how migrants from Central America's Northern Triangle became bound up in the crisis at the border between the US and Mexico. The New York Times listed it among its ten best books of 2024. Among his honors are a National Award for Education Reporting and an Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2018 the French-American Foundation gave him its Immigration Journalism Prize. He was a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America, and he lives in New York City with his family.