Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott is an American journalist and author at The New York Times, where she has spent two decades covering poverty, religion and urban America. Her book Invisible Child — the Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography of Dasani, a homeless girl in New York, built from seven years of reporting — is celebrated as one of the most powerful works of narrative non-fiction of its era.

Elliott's reporting on a Brooklyn family's struggle through the shelter system, the foster system and the school system transformed how a city sees itself. She won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction for Invisible Child, and her work is required reading in journalism schools for its empathy and structural precision.