An Ordinary Man (23 page)

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.