Ann Louise Bardach

Ann Louise Bardach's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Ann Louise Bardach, a critically-acclaimed author, speaker and award-winning reporter, is widely considered the go-to journalist on all things Cuba and Miami - a niche she began carving out for herself more than fifteen years ago as a writer for Vanity Fair.

Ann Louise Bardach is the author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is also the editor of The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro as well as Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion. Ann Bardach also serves on The Brookings Institution's Cuba Study Project and is a special correspondent for CBS News.

Ann Louise Bardach was a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fairfor ten years and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic andThe Daily Beast. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, Dateline, CNN, Nightline, The O’Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose, National Public Radio and PRI's Marketplace. Ann Bardach also created and wrote the Global Buzz column for Newsweek International and the Interrogation column for Slate.

Several of Ann Bardach’s articles have been anthologized in KILLED: Journalism Too Hot To Print and Mexico in Mind. 

More About Ann Louise Bardach. . .
Ann Bardach won the PEN USA Award for Journalism in 1995 for her reporting on Mexican politics, and was a finalist in 1994 for her coverage of women in Islamic countries. 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 Best Nonfiction, and named one of the “Ten Best Books of 2002” by the Los Angeles Times. Ann Louise Bardach was a finalist for the 2005 PEN USA award for Journalism for the ground-breaking story on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's ties with the tabloids- published in Los Angeles magazine.

• Cuba
• The Middle East
• Foreign Policy
• Islamic Fundamentalism and Women
• Cuba/Miami/Washington Relations and Policy