I am the co-author of three books of memoir and biography: The Inconvenient Journalist; Milosevic, Portrait of a Tyrant; and Gorbachev, Heretic in the Kremlin. I am a former foreign and war correspondent for the London Sunday Times and a former USA TODAY editor and opinion writer. My work and commentary have appeared in theWashington Post, Baltimore Sun, Dallas Morning News, Newsday,  the London Times magazine, on NPR's All Things Considered, the BBC, CNN, and elsewhere. I am a certified book coach in memoir and fiction for select clients.

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Born in the UK, I grew up in Uganda and Kenya, and earned honors degrees at the universities of Lancaster (UK) and Paris. My work has taken me to the UK, Spain, France, Switzerland, the former Soviet Union, Taiwan, China, the former Yugoslavia, the wider Balkans, Thailand and the USA. I speak several languages. I live in Fairfax, VA. 

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