Elaine Shannon
Elaine Shannon | |
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Born | Gainesville, Georgia, U.S. | November 16, 1946
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Vanderbilt University Harvard University |
Occupation | Investigative journalist |
Spouse | Dan Morgan |
Children | 1 |
Website | www |
Elaine Shannon (born November 16, 1946) is an American
Early life
Shannon was born in
Career
According to CNN, Shannon "has covered criminal justice issues, including international arms trafficking, drug trafficking and money laundering, organized crime, white collar crime, terrorism and espionage" since 1976.
She joined Newsweek in 1976 and covered the Presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.[3] In October 1986, she left Newsweek to finish writing her New York Times best-selling book about the drug trade, Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win.[3]
In April 1987, Shannon joined Time where she was a correspondent in their Washington, D.C., bureau.[3] She became a panelist on PBS's To the Contrary in 1993.[3]
Books
Shannon is the author of four books. Her first, Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win, sold over 130,000 copies.[3] Publishers Weekly stated that Shannon drew on 10 years of expertise covering the international drug scene for Newsweek to write about the 1985 torture-murder of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.[5] In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Kirsch called Desperados "a sock-in-the-eye work of reporting about America's losing struggle against the multinational, multibillion-dollar drug industry"
No Heroes: Inside the FBI's Secret Counter-Terror Force was written with Deputy Assistant Director of the
Shannon's fourth book, Hunting LeRoux, was published in 2019 by William Morrow/HarperCollins.[4] The story discusses Paul Le Roux and the DEA's elite special operation group that tracked him in an effort to bring down his global criminal enterprise.[4] Shannon learned about Le Roux in Afghanistan while researching how warlords and terrorist groups were financed by the heroin trade,[4] and her sources included undercover DEA agents and informants.[8] Mann wrote the foreword of the book and as of 2019 had plan to develop it into a movie.[4] Kirkus Reviews called it a "painstaking, fascinating account of crime and punishment" and said Shannon did an especially good job presenting "how the American Drug Enforcement Administration pieced together its multiagency, multigovernmental case against Le Roux".[8] Jeff Ayers' review described the book as a "gripping account that is both well-written and exhaustively researched".[9]
Awards
Shannon has won the
Personal life
Shannon lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Dan Morgan, author and correspondent for The Washington Post.[3][7] They have a son, Andrew.[3]
References
- ^ HarperCollins Publishers. "Elaine Shannon". harpercollins.com. HarperCollins Publishers. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ Schilling, Mary Kaye (February 22, 2019). "Global Crime's Shadowy Cyber Genius Revealed in Elaine Shannon's New Book, 'Hunting LeRoux'". Newsweek. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Elaine Shannon". AllPolitics. cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g Patterson, Jim; Read, Jan (August 20, 2019). "On the Hunt: Elaine Shannon, BA'68, Investigative Journalist". Vanderbilt News. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ Publishers Weekly (October 1, 1988). "Desperados". publishersweekly.com. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ Kirsch, Jonanthan (November 30, 1988). "Book Review : 'Desperados'--a War We May Not Win". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ a b c "About the Author". elaine-shannon.com. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ a b "Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire". Kirkus Reviews. February 6, 2019. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ Ayers, Jeff (February 26, 2019). "Review: Takedown of Paul LeRoux is gripping true-crime tale". ABC News. Associated Press. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ a b "IAPA Announces Journalism Awards". AP. July 27, 1992. Retrieved October 8, 2020.