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Ann Louise Bardach .L. Bardachis an American journalist and non-fiction author. Bardach is best known for her work on
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and Miami and was called "the go-to journalist on all things Cuban and Miami," by the ''
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'', having interviewed dozens of key players including Fidel Castro, sister Juanita Castro, anti-Castro militant legend
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, CIA and Watergate plumber E. Howard Hunt, anti-Castro militant
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and CIA operative Felix Rodriguez, who was present for the assassination of Che Guevara. Bardach's book ''Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington'' was cited as a authoritative work on Cuba under the Castros and named one of ''
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described it as "news between hard covers by a relentless reporter who writes like a dream." Her book ''Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana'' was widely praised:
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described Bardach's work on Cuba as "fearless and gutsy - America's answer to Oriana Fallaci." Some of her journalism has been anthologized in KILLED: ''Journalism Too Hot To Print'' and ''In Mexico in Mind.'' Bardach was a Contributing Editor at '' Vanity Fair'' for ten years and has written for ''
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''. She has appeared on numerous television programs including '' 60 Minutes'', ''
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'', '' Charlie Rose'' and has been frequently heard on
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and the
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. Bardach started the '' Global Buzz'' column for ''
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'' and created ''The Interrogation'' column for ''Slate.''


Early/Mid career

Starting out as a freelance crime reporter in New York City in the late 1970s, she lucked out by being at the Bellevue Morgue the week that the body of ''Sex Pistol''
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' girlfriend,
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arrived DOA. Bardach's crime reporting includes a jailhouse confession of the first Manson murder, committed by Bobby Beausoleil, the JonBenét Ramsey case for Vanity Fair (where she was the first to publish the ransom note), the murder of
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, Alfred Bloomingdale's mistress, and the 2010 murder of Hollywood publicist
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. Bardach chronicled the New York punk scene in the late 1970s-80s, conducting numerous interviews with musicians and personages from Debbie Harry of Blondie (in the New York Times Magazine),
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, the punk opera singer, etc. In the mid 1990s, she began her research into
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monk and spiritual titan who introduced meditation to the West. In 2011–12, Bardach published articles about Vivekananda in the Sunday ''New York Times'' and The ''Wall Street Journal'', with eventual plans for a biography.


Awards

In 1995 Bardach won the PEN USA Award for Journalism for her reporting on Mexican politics; she was a PEN finalist in 1994 for her coverage of Islamic Fundamentalism's impact on women (both published in Vanity Fair). 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 non-fiction, and named one of "Ten Best Books of 2002" by the ''Los Angeles Times''. Bardach was a finalist for several awards for her reporting on bodybuilder/former gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's extensive ties with David Pecker and the
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published in ''Los Angeles'' magazine. Bardach started the international journalism class at
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(USCB) and is on the board of PEN USA and UCSB's Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media. She worked as a Resident Scholar at UCSB's Orfalea Center. She is also the editor of bi-lingual edition of ''The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro'' as well as ''Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion''. She served on the
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's Cuba Study Project.


Books

* ''Vicki'' (St. Martins Press, 1986) * ''Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion'' (Whereabouts Press, 2002) * ''Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana'' (Random House, 2002) * ''Cuba Confidential: The Extraordinary Tragedy of Cuba, Its Revolution and Its Exiles'' (Penguin, 2004) * ''Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print'' (Nation Books, 2004) * ''The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro: Cartas del Presidio'' (Avalon/Nation, 2007) * ''Without Fidel: Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington'' (Scribner, 2009)


References


External links


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