Barbara Crossette
Barbara Crossette | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 12, 1939 |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, author |
| Agent(s) | Sterling Lord Literistic, New York |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times; India Facing the 21st Century, So Close to Heaven, The Great Hill Stations of Asia, India: Old Civilization in a New World (books) |
Barbara Crossette (born 12 July 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American journalist and author who was chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and South Asia from 1984 to 1991 for The New York Times. She was also the paper's United Nations bureau chief from 1994 to 2001, and is now United Nations correspondent for The Nation magazine.
In 1991 she received the George Polk Award for her coverage in India of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. In 2010 she won the Shorenstein prize for writing on Asia, awarded jointly by journalism centers at Stanford University and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She was a Knight international press fellow in Brazil in 2004-2005, and has conducted workshops in Southeast Asia for the Independent Journalism Foundation.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the editorial advisory board of the Foreign Policy Association and the Authors Guild, which maintains a full and accurate biography of her and a complete bibliography of her work at www.authorsguild.org.
She holds an honorary doctorate from Muhlenberg College, where she is now a member of the Board of Trustees.
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