Barbara Crossette

Journalist, Author

1939 –

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Who is Barbara Crossette?

Barbara Crossette is an American journalist and author. In a long career at The New York Times she served as an editor and as the paper's chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and South Asia. She was the Times' United Nations bureau chief from 1994 to 2001.

Crossette, now United Nations correspondent for The Nation, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Foreign Policy Association.

She is the author of So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas and The Great Hill Stations of Asia. The latter was a New York Times notable book of the year in 1998. Among her awards are a 1992 George Polk award for her coverage of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, a 2008 Fulbright prize for her contributions to international understanding and the 2010 Shorenstein prize for her writings 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.

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Born
Jul 12, 1939
Philadelphia
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Muhlenberg College
Lived in
  • Philadelphia

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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