{"id":16,"date":"2019-01-07T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterduffy.net\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:11:26","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-3-4\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">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.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of four acclaimed works of narrative nonfiction:\u00a0<em>The Agitator<\/em>\u00a0(PublicAffairs, 2019), a portrait of prophetic resistance during the age of Hitler;\u00a0<em>Double Agent<\/em>\u00a0(Scribner, 2014), named by\u00a0<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0as one of the five best books on spycraft;\u00a0<em>The Killing of Major Denis Mahon<\/em>\u00a0(HarperCollins, 2007), praised by\u00a0<em>The Boston Globe<\/em>\u00a0as \u201ca significant contribution to the literature of the Great Famine\u201d; and\u00a0<em>The Bielski Brothers<\/em>\u00a0(HarperCollins, 2003), a story of Jewish rescue and resistance during the Holocaust, &#8221;as amazing as Schindler&#8217;s List,&#8221; according to\u00a0<i>People\u00a0<\/i>magazine.<\/p>\n<p>His journalism has been published in The New York Times, New York magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and many other publications.<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-4\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Biography - Peter Duffy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/biography\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biography - Peter Duffy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/biography\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Peter Duffy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-19T14:11:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/\",\"name\":\"Peter Duffy\",\"description\":\"Author &amp; Journalist\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/biography\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/biography\/\",\"name\":\"Biography - Peter Duffy\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-07T20:51:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-19T14:11:26+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/biography\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/biography\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/biography\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Biography\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterduffy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}