Ann Louise Bardach

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Ann Louise Bardach
PEN USA Award for Journalism

Ann Louise Bardach [A.L. Bardach] is an American journalist and non-fiction author. Bardach is best known for her work on

Felix Rodriguez, who was present for the assassination of Che Guevara.[3]

Bardach's book Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington was cited as a authoritative work on Cuba under the Castros

Newsweek International and created The Interrogation column for Slate.[6]

Early/Mid career

Starting out as a freelance crime reporter in New York City in the late 1970s, she lucked out by being at the Bellevue Morgue the week that the body of Sex Pistol

The Sex Pistols, artist Winston Tong, filmmaker Kenneth Anger, poet Jim Carroll, Klaus Nomi
, the punk opera singer, etc.

In the mid 1990s, she began her research into

Hindu
monk and spiritual titan who introduced meditation to the West. In 2011–12, Bardach published articles about Vivekananda in the Sunday New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, with eventual plans for a biography.

Awards

In 1995 Bardach won the

PEN USA Award for Journalism for her reporting on Mexican politics; she was a PEN finalist in 1994 for her coverage of Islamic Fundamentalism's impact on women (both published in Vanity Fair). Her book Cuba Confidential was a finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the PEN USA Award for non-fiction, and named one of "Ten Best Books of 2002" by the Los Angeles Times.[8] Bardach was a finalist for several awards for her reporting on bodybuilder/former gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's extensive ties with David Pecker and the tabloid press
published in Los Angeles magazine.

Bardach started the international journalism class at University of California, Santa Barbara (USCB) and is on the board of PEN USA and UCSB's Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media.[9][10] She worked as a Resident Scholar at UCSB's Orfalea Center. She is also the editor of bi-lingual edition of The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro as well as Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion. She served on the Brookings Institution's Cuba Study Project.

Books

  • Vicki (St. Martins Press, 1986)
  • Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 2002)
  • Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana (Random House, 2002)
  • Cuba Confidential: The Extraordinary Tragedy of Cuba, Its Revolution and Its Exiles (Penguin, 2004)
  • Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print (Nation Books, 2004)
  • The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro: Cartas del Presidio (Avalon/Nation, 2007)
  • Without Fidel: Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington (Scribner, 2009)

References

  1. ^ "Conversations with Fidel Castro".
  2. ^ "E. Howard Hunt talks". October 5, 2004.
  3. ^ Nordenson, Bree (Mar.-Apr. 2008). "Capturing Cuba." Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original.
  4. ^ "Castros Forever".
  5. ^ Ogle, Connie. "Reviewers' choices for most intriguing – Living". The Miami Herald. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
  6. ^ A.L. Bardach (February 25, 2005). "Interrogating Ahmet Ertegun. – By A.L. Bardach – Slate Magazine". Slate. Archived from the original on January 16, 2010. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
  7. ^ Bardach, Ann; Lydon, Susan (August 26, 1979). "A Cool Blonde and". The New York Times.
  8. ^ Wasserman, Steve (December 8, 2002). "Best of the Best". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
  9. ^ "Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, television, and New Media". Cftnm.ucsb.edu. February 12, 2010. Archived from the original on June 17, 2010. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
  10. ^ "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at UCSB". Global.ucsb.edu. February 26, 2010. Archived from the original on March 28, 2010. Retrieved March 2, 2010.

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