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Anne-Marie O'Connor

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Anne-Marie O'Connor is a veteran foreign correspondent, war reporter and culture writer who has covered everything from post-Soviet Cuba to American artists and intellectuals. O'Connor attended Vassar and the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where she and fellow students co-created an award-winning documentary on the repression of mural artists after the 1973 military coup in Chile. She covered the wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala as a Reuters bureau chief in Central America; the Shining Path guerrillas in Peru, coups in Haiti and U.S. interventions in Haiti and Panama; and covered Cuba and Haiti for a newspaper chain. At the Los Angeles Times she chronicled the violence o ...more

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Thank you for answering my simple question. I would like to know more about your and your world. Our Book Club find the authors' lives are very interesting. We are reading "The Lady in Gold" and looking forward to seeing the movie's interperutation. Did you work with the director and staff while your book was being filmed?

Anne-Marie O'Connor I'm very excited about "Woman in Gold," the movie coming out in April! But I wasn't involved with it. They began working on the film years ago, before…moreI'm very excited about "Woman in Gold," the movie coming out in April! But I wasn't involved with it. They began working on the film years ago, before my book came out, with Randol Schoenberg. A lot of the story was well-known publicly by then. They wanted to fictionalize some details of the story, so they didn't need a historical nonfiction book. I'm working with a European production on another film, and I'm excited about that too.(less)

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Do you currentlly write for the Washington Post from Jerusalem; or as another report lists you as writing for the Washington Post from Mexico City wher your husband William Booth, is the bureau chief?

Anne-Marie O'Connor Hi Patsy, I'm in Jerusalem now. We moved in 2013. This has been updated in some places, but not in others. The paperback and all the new printings wil…moreHi Patsy, I'm in Jerusalem now. We moved in 2013. This has been updated in some places, but not in others. The paperback and all the new printings will have it, but probably a lot of library books have the old location.(less)

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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

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“Happy he who forgets what cannot be changed.”
― Anne-Marie O'Connor, The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

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“Any nonsense can attain importance by virtue of being believed by millions of people,” Einstein”
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“to every age its art; to art its freedom.”
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