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Andrea Elliott is an American journalist and a staff writer for The New York Times. She is the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in both Journalism (2007) and Letters (2022). She received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on an Egyptian-born imam living in Brooklyn and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for , a book about Dasani, a young girl enduring homelessness in New York City.
In December 2013, Elliott published "Invisible Child," a 28,000-word, five-part series for the Times on child homelessness in New York City.Elliott, Andrea, "Invisible Child", The New York Times, accessed December 9, 2013. Elliott expanded the series into a book for Random House as an Emerson Fellow at New America Foundation. was published in October 2021. It was selected for the New York Times Book Reviews "10 Best Books of 2021" list.
Elliott is also the recipient of the George Polk Award, the Scripps Howard Award, the David Aronson Award and prizes by the Overseas Press Club, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the New York Press Club. Her work has been featured in the collections Best Newspaper Writing and Islam for Journalists: A Primer on Covering Muslim American Communities in America.
In May 2014, Elliott received an honorary doctorate from Niagara University, which cited her “courage, perseverance, and a commitment to fairness for those without a public voice rarely demonstrated among writers today.”
In May 2015, Elliott was awarded Columbia University's Medal for Excellence, awarded to one alumna under 45 every year.
In 2018, Elliott received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her book Invisible Child.
In 2022, Elliot received a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City.
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