Peter Duffy
Peter Duffy has been a freelance journalist since 1999, writing for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, The New Republic, Slate, and many other outlets. His most recent book is The Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old Ireland.
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Peter Duffy was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. Since 1999,
he has been a freelance journalist, writing for The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, New York
magazine, The New Republic, Slate, and many other outlets. In 2003,
HarperCollins published his first book, The Bielski
Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in
the Forest, and Saved 1200 Jews. It has been translated into
French, Catalan, Japanese, German, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, Chinese,
Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, and Russian. In 2007, HarperCollins
published his second book, The Killing of Major Denis Mahon:
A Mystery of Old Ireland, which tells the story of paupers in rural
Ireland who rose up to assassinate their landlord during the Great Irish Famine
of the 19th century. It was an alternate selection of the History Book Club and
was also offered by the Book of the Month Club and the Military Book Club. He
lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with his wife, Laura Italiano, and
daughter, Eleanor.
