Mark Bixler

Mark Bixler

Mark Bixler is a journalist in Atlanta, Georgia, and author of The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience. An editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mark is among a team of reporters and editors who were named as finalists in breaking news for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. He also has been honored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the North Carolina Press Association and the Georgia Associated Press Association.

The Lost Boys of Sudan chronicles four war refugees from southern Sudan for their first few years in the United States. It has received positive reviews from The Washington Post and The New York Review of Books. Former President Jimmy Carter calls the story “heartbreaking and inspiring.” In conjunction with the book’s publication, Bixler founded a charitable fund that has raised about $20,000 to help Sudanese refugees pay for an education.

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