Exit Wounds

‘Praise for Mukiwa: The life of the white boys and girls in colonial Africa has vanished now, but this fine and powerful memoir is a marvellous contribution to its literature’ - WILLIAM BOYD, Sunday Times‘Remarkable’ - DORIS LESSING, Observer ‘Praise for The Fear: The Fear is an important book … Godwin is passionate and personal, as well as bold in his travel and scrupulous in his documentation’ - PAUL THEROUX ‘The Fear is an urgent and essential book … it makes for relentlessly gripping reading’ - PHILIP GOUREVITCH

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