Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott is an American journalist and author who has been a reporter at The New York Times since 2003. She graduated from Brown University and earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City (2021) followed Dasani, a homeless girl navigating the New York City shelter system, over eight years. Elliott had originally profiled Dasani in a 2013 series for The Times; the book expanded that story into a comprehensive account of inequality in contemporary America. Invisible Child won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and the Lukas Book Prize. Elliott previously won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2007 for her series on a young Muslim cleric in Brooklyn. She is considered one of the foremost practitioners of long-form immersive journalism in American media.