Philip Gourevitch (born 1961), an American author and journalist, is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and a former editor of The Paris Review.

He became widely known for his first book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998), which tells the story of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

He and his brother Marc, a physician, spent most of their childhood in Middletown, Connecticut, where their father taught at Wesleyan University from 1967 to 1995.

In 1992 he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University.

He has also written for many other magazines and newspapers, and has sat on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own free expression award.

Frustrated by his inability to understand the event from afar, he began visiting Rwanda in 1995, and over the next two years made nine trips to the country and to its neighbors (Zaire, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania) to report on the genocide and its aftermath.