Andrea Elliott is an American journalist and a staff writer for The New York Times.
15 Facts About Andrea Elliott
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Andrea Elliott is the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in both Journalism and Letters.
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Andrea Elliott studied comparative literature at Occidental College, where she developed an interest in documentary film.
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In 1995, Andrea Elliott worked in Chile and Argentina as a field producer for "La Tierra en que Vivimos," a natural history television program.
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Andrea Elliott then moved to San Francisco to co-direct and write the documentary "It's All Good," exploring the subculture of aggressive inline skaters in Los Angeles and New York City.
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In 1999, Andrea Elliott attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, graduating first in her class.
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Andrea Elliott joined The Miami Herald as a reporter in 2000, covering crime, courts, immigration and Latin American politics.
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Andrea Elliott left The Miami Herald for The New York Times in May 2003.
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In December 2013, Andrea Elliott published "Invisible Child," a 28,000-word, five-part series for the Times on child homelessness in New York City.
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Andrea Elliott expanded the series into a book for Random House as an Emerson Fellow at New America Foundation.
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In 2007, Andrea Elliott received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on Sheik Reda Shata, an Egyptian-born imam living in Brooklyn.
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Andrea Elliott is the recipient of the George Polk Award, the Scripps Howard Award, the David Aronson Award and prizes by the Overseas Press Club, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the New York Press Club.
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Andrea Elliott's work has been featured in the collections Best Newspaper Writing and Islam for Journalists: A Primer on Covering Muslim American Communities in America.
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In May 2015, Andrea Elliott was awarded Columbia University's Medal for Excellence, awarded to one alumna under 45 every year.
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In 2018, Andrea Elliott received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her book Invisible Child.