Jonathan Blitzer — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Author of 'Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis' (2024), named a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024.
Staff Writer at The New Yorker.
Recipient of a National Award for Education Reporting, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize.
2021 Emerson Fellow at New America.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal.

Biography

Jonathan Blitzer is an American journalist and writer, currently serving as a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 2024, he authored 'Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis,' a book that chronicles the involvement of migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America in the ongoing Mexico–United States border crisis. The book was recognized as a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024.