Peter Duffy is an author and journalist based in New York City. Since 2017, he has worked in global advocacy, first with AIDS-Free World, exposing the injustices and inequalities fueling the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and now with Crisis Action, building coalitions to protect civilians in armed conflict.
He is the author of four acclaimed works of narrative nonfiction: The Agitator (PublicAffairs, 2019), a portrait of prophetic resistance during the age of Hitler; Double Agent (Scribner, 2014), named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the five best books on spycraft; The Killing of Major Denis Mahon (HarperCollins, 2007), praised by The Boston Globe as “a significant contribution to the literature of the Great Famine”; and The Bielski Brothers (HarperCollins, 2003), a story of Jewish rescue and resistance during the Holocaust, ”as amazing as Schindler’s List,” according to People magazine.
His journalism has been published in The New York Times, New York magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and many other publications.
