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Kati Marton
Marton Kati Ilona
photo by Billy Bustamante, photographer: [1]
photo by Billy Bustamante, photographer: [2]
Born (1949-04-03) April 3, 1949 (age 75)[1]
Budapest, Hungary
EducationAttended Wells College, 1965-67
Sorbonne and the Institut des Etudes de Sciences Politiques, Paris, 1967-68
George Washington University, B.A., 1969, M.A., 1971
Occupation(s)Journalist, human rights activist
Agent(s)Amanda Urban, International Creative Management, 40 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.
Notable creditABC News
Spouse(s)Carroll Wetzel (early 1970s)
Peter Jennings (1979-1993)
Richard Holbrooke (1995-2010) (his death)
ChildrenElizabeth Jennings
Christopher Jennings

Kati Marton is a Hungarian-American author and journalist. Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radio, where she started as a production assistant 1971 in her 20s, as well as print journalism and writing a number of books.

She is the former chairwoman of the International Women's Health Coalition, and a director (former chairwoman) of the Committee to Protect Journalists and other bodies including the International Rescue Committee, Human Rights Watch and the New America Foundation.

Biography

Early life

Marton was born in Hungary,[2][3][4] the daughter of UPI reporter Ilona Marton and award-winning Associated Press reporter Endre Marton. Her parents survived the Holocaust of World War II but never spoke about it. They served nearly two years in prison on false charges of espionage for the U.S., and Kati and her older sister were placed in the care of strangers. Raised a Roman Catholic, she learned much later and by accident that her grandparents were Jews who were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. Among the many honors her parents received for their reporting on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was the George Polk Award. The family fled Hungary following the revolution and settled in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where Marton attended Bethesda Chevy Chase High School.

Education

She studied at the Sorbonne, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. Growing up in Hungary, she had a French nanny, so she was raised speaking both Hungarian and French, learning American English when her family moved to America. She has a master's degree in international relations from George Washington University.

Personal life

Marton has been married three times. Her first husband was Carroll Wetzel, a retired international investment banker from Philadelphia. TV anchor Peter Jennings was her second husband. Jennings and Marton had two children together. She was married to diplomat Richard Holbrooke from 1995 until his death in December 2010.[5][6] She wrote about their love and recovering from his death in her 2012 memoir, Paris: A Love Story.[7]

Awards

Marton has received several honors for her reporting, including the 2001 Rebekah Kohut Humanitarian Award by the National Council of Jewish Women, the 2002 Matrix Award for Women Who Change the World, the George Foster Peabody Award (presented to WCAU-TV, Philadelphia in 1973) and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary—the country's highest civilian honor. She is also a recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence. Her book, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America, was an autobiography finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2009.[8]

Selected writing

  • Marton, Kati (2012). Paris: A Love Story. New York: [Simon & Schuster]. ISBN 978-1-4516-9154-2. OCLC 778417065.
  • Marton, Kati (2010). A nép ellenségei : családom regénye (in Hungarian). Budapest: Corvina. ISBN 978-963-13-5882-7. LCCN 2011391425. {{cite book}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 5 (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Marton, Kati (2009). Enemies of the people : my family's journey to America (1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-8612-8. LCCN 2009014480. OCLC 759874746.
  • Marton, Kati (2006). The great escape : nine Jews who fled Hitler and changed the world. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-6115-9. LCCN 2006049162. OCLC 70864519.}
  • Marton, Kati (2008). Kilenc magyar aki világgၠment és megváltoztatta a világot (in Hungarian). (translator) Bart Dániel. Budapest: Corvina. ISBN 978-963-13-5681-6. LCCN 20084181620. {{cite book}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 23 (help); Check |lccn= value (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  • Marton, Kati (2001). Hidden power : presidential marriages that shaped our recent history (1st ed.). New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-375-40106-7. LCCN 2001021351. OCLC 50625328.
  • Marton, Kati (1992). The Polk conspiracy : murder and cover-up in the case of CBS News correspondent George Polk (1st pbk. ed.). New York: Times Books. ISBN 0-8129-2047-3. LCCN 91050973.
  • Marton, Kati (1996). A death in Jerusalem (1st Arcade ed.). New York: Arcade. ISBN 1-55970-352-0. LCCN 95051833.
  • Marton, Kati (1987). An American woman (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-02420-2. LCCN 86016342.
  • Marton, Kati (1995). Wallenberg : missing hero (1st Arcade ed.). New York: Distributed by Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 1-55970-276-1. LCCN 94079600.
  • Marton, Kati (1990). The Polk conspiracy : murder and cover-up in the case of CBS News correspondent George Polk (1st ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0-374-13553-3. LCCN 89023384.

References

  1. ^ %7Cid-Gale Document Number: GALE%7CH1000112975 "Kati Marton" (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-30. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help) Gale Biography In Context.
  2. ^ Marton, Kati (October 23, 2006). "The Shadow of a Smile". The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  3. ^ Bumiller, Elisabeth (July 23, 1998). "PUBLIC LIVES; Mr. Secretary, Perhaps, and Ms. Ambassador". The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  4. ^ Furst, Alan (October 30, 2009). "The Dossier". The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  5. ^ McFadden, Robert D. (December 13, 2010). "RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE, 1941-2010 : Strong American Voice in Diplomacy and Crisis". New York Times. In 1995, he married Kati Marton, an author, journalist and human rights advocate who had been married to the ABC anchorman Peter Jennings until their divorce in 1993. He is survived by Ms. Marton; his two sons; his brother, Andrew; and two stepchildren, Christopher and Elizabeth Jennings.
  6. ^ "Richard C. Holbrooke". NNDB. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
  7. ^ NPR Weekend Edition Saturday. August 18, 2012 http://www.npr.org/2012/08/18/158996276/kati-marton-recalling-paris-with-love-and-longing. Retrieved 2012-08-18. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists". NBCC Board of Directors. January 23, 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-17.

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