Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda by Rosamond Halsey Carr with Ann Howard Halsey (New York: Viking Penguin, 1999; London: Viking/Allen Lane, 1999) is the autobiography of Mugongo’s orphanage director, who is a treasure of Central Africa and a sharp observer of politics and people. Finally, Keir Pearson and Terry George’s masterful screenplay for the movie Hotel Rwanda, reprinted in their book Hotel Rwanda: Bringing the True Story of an African Hero to Film (New York: Newmarket Press, 2005) ensured that the events at the Hotel Mille Collines would be known throughout the world.

A NOTE ON THE AUTHORS

Paul Rusesabagina was the manager of the Hotel des Diplomats and later of the Hotel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda, during the Rwandan genocide. He is a recipient of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Civil Rights Museum’s 2005 Freedom Medal.

He left Rwanda in 1995 and now lives with his family in Belgium.

Tom Zoellner is a freelance journalist and writer, who has worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in New York.