Barbara crossette biography

Barbara Crossette .
Born in Philadelphia on July 12, 1939, Ms. Crossette received a B.A. in history and political science from Muhlenberg College in 1963.
Barbara Crossette is an American journalist.

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Barbara Crossette, a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, is the author of several books on Asia, including So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1995 and in paperback by Random House/Vintage Destinations in 1996, and a collection of travel essays about colonial resort towns that are still attracting visitors more than a century after their creation, The Great Hill Stations of Asia, published by Westview Press in 1998 and in paperback by Basic Books in 1999. In 2000, she wrote a survey of India and Indian-American relations, India: Old Civilization in a New World, for the Foreign Policy Association in New York. She is also the author of India Facing the 21st Century, published by Indiana University Press in 1993.

The Great Hill Stations of Asia was a New York Times notable book of the year in 1998. Conde Nast Traveler named it a Book of the Month.

In 2010 she received the Shorenstein Prize for Reporting on Asia from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Unive

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Crossette, Barbara

CROSSETTE, Barbara. American. Genres: Area studies, Travel/Exploration. Career:New York Times United Nations bureau chief, 1994-, Washington correspondent, 19911993, bureau chief (New Delhi, India) 1988-1991 and (Bangkok) 1984-1988. Fulbright Professor of Journalism at Punjab University and at the Indian Institute for Mass Communications, New Delhi, 1980. Columbia University, Southern Asia Institute, research associate. Publications: India: Facing the Twenty-First Century, 1993; So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas, 1995; The Great Hill Stations of Asia, 1998. EDITOR: America's Wonderful Little Hotels and Inns, 1980; (with W. Lowe) America's Wonderful Little Hotels and Inns: Eastern Region, 1984; (with W. Lowe) America's Wonderful Little Hotels and Inns: Western Region, 1984. Address: The New York Times, UN Secretarial Building, Room 453, New York, NY 10017, U.S.A.

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Martin Bellwas a reporter with the BBC for more than 30 years. He was best known for his coverage of eleven different wars from Vietnam to Bosnia. During his last assignment, he was injured by mortar fire. He was twice chosen as BBC’s "Reporter of the Year," was honoured with General Service Medal and the Gulf War Medal, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire. He left the BBC in 1997 to run as an Independent candidate for Parliament. He won by a sizeable majority. Since leaving politics, he has served as UNICEF’s Ambassador for Humanitarian Emergencies, working in nine different countries. He is the author of three book: In Harm’s Way(1995), An Accidental MP (2000), and, most recently, Through Gates of Fire(2003).

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Barbara Crossette was the New York Times chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and later in South Asia. She reported on the Timorese battle for independence in the 1980