Barbara Crossette
Barbara Crossette | |
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| Born | July 12, 1939 |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, author, teacher of journalism |
| Agent | Sterling Lord Literistics |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times; So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas, The Great Hill Stations of Asia, India: Old Civilization in a New World (books) |
| Spouse | David Wigg |
Barbara Crossette (born 12 July 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American journalist and instructor in journalism.
She wrote for The New York Times for over twenty years, served as the paper's chief correspondent in South East Asia and South Asia and was the Times' United Nations bureau chief from 1994 to 2001. In 2003 she was awarded the United Nations Correspondents' Association's lifetime achievement award. She won the 1991 George Polk Award for her coverage of the assassination in India of Rajiv Gandhi.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has been a member of the board of the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs. She is now United Nations correspondent for The Nation. [1]
She has also written books, including So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas (1995) and The Great Hill Stations of Asia (1998). The latter was a New York Times notable book of the year in 1998. In 2010, she received the Shorenstein Prize for her writing on Asia, awarded jointly by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Center at Stanford University, and the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, part of the Kennedy School of Government.[2]
Bibliography
- India: Old Civilization in a New World. New York: Foreign Policy Association, 2000. ISBN 0871241935 ISBN 978-0871241931
- The Great Hill Stations of Asia. Basic Books, 1998. ISBN 0813333261 ISBN 978-0813333267
- So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. ISBN 067941827X ISBN 978-0679418276
- India Facing the 21st Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. ISBN 0253315778 ISBN 978-0253315779