Alex Perry

Alex Perry is an award-winning non-fiction writer and journalist, whose work is frequently adapted for film and television.

He is the author of The Good Mothers, which became a six-part series for Disney/Hulu of the same name, and which won the inaugural series award at the 2023 Berlinale film festival. The 2022 Netflix feature documentary, The Volcano, based on his Outside magazine article, "The True Story of the White Island Eruption," was Netflix’s No. 1 film in 23 countries, attracting an audience of 87 million in the 10 days after its release. Last Days, directed by Justin Lin, based on Alex's article "The Last Days of John Allen Chau" -- about an American missionary's fatal attempts to convert the world's last uncontacted tribe -- premiered at the 2025 Sundance film festival and is due for cinema release on October 24, 2025.

Alex is currently at work on his sixth book, Blood Will Flow, the true story of a cataclysmic massacre outside an oil and gas facility in Mozambique in 2021, due to be published worldwide in 2026. His reporting on Mozambique won a George Polk award (2022) and a True Story award (2025). Alex has won a dozen other awards for his journalism, and has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Harper’s, The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, Roads and Kingdoms, The Sunday Times magazine and others.

Born in Philadelphia, raised in England, Alex lived and worked in Asia and Africa for fifteen years. He now lives in Hampshire, England.

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