Anne Garrels Biography – Anne Garrels Wiki
Anne Garrels was an American broadcast journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, as well as ABC and NBC. She was educated at St Catherine’s School, Bramley. Garrels returned to the United States and enrolled at Middlebury College, but later transferred to Harvard University’s Radcliffe College, where she studied Russian and graduated in 1972.
In 1975, she worked at ABC in several positions for ten years, including serving in the Soviet Union as Moscow bureau chief and correspondent until she was expelled in 1982. As Central American bureau chief from 1984 to 1985, she covered the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Garrels was the NBC News correspondent at the U.S. State Department. She joined NPR in 1988 and reported on conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, and the West Bank. Garrels was the Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1996 and was a member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Garrels was one of the sixteen Western journalists who remained in Baghdad and reported live during the 2003 Iraq War—and for a while was the only American broadcast reporter still broadcasting from the middle of Baghdad.
Shortly after her return from Iraq, she published Naked in Baghdad, a memoir of her time covering the events surrounding the invasion. She subsequently returned to Iraq several times for NPR. She was an embedded reporter with the U.S. Marines during the November 2004 attack on Fallujah. Garrels also covered the January 2005 Iraqi national elections for an interim government, as well as the constitutional referendum and the December 2005 elections for the first full term Iraqi government. As sectarian violence swept much of central Iraq Garrels continued to report from Baghdad, Najaf, and Basra.
In 2007 Garrels was criticized by FAIR for using confessions by prisoners who had been tortured, during a story about an Iraqi Shiite militia (broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition). Garrels later defended her story on NPR’s “Letters” program, saying: “Of course, I had doubts. But the details that were given seemed to me to gel with other things that I had heard from people who had not been tortured. But I was as uncomfortable as the listeners were with the conditions.”
Garrels retired from NPR in 2010. In 2016, she published her second book, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. When the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine erupted, Garrels, then in her 70s, attempted to get assigned to cover that war. Unable to do so, she started a charity to raise money to support Ukraine and the victims of the war.
Anne Garrels Age
Anne Longworth Garrels. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on July 2, 1951, and died on September 7, 2022, at the age of 71.
Anne Garrels Husband
In 1986, she married J. Vinton Lawrence, one of two CIA paramilitary officers from the Special Activities Division stationed in Laos in the early 1960s, who worked with Hmong tribesmen and the CIA-owned airline Air America. They were married until Lawrence’s death from leukemia in 2016.
Anne Garrels Children
She had no known children of her own. However, she was the stepmother of Rebecca Lawrence and Gabrielle.
Anne Garrels Family
She spent part of her childhood in London, where her father worked as an executive for Monsanto.
Anne Garrels Death
Garrels was a resident of Norfolk, Connecticut, where she died from lung cancer on September 7, 2022, aged 71. Ms. Garrels’s death from lung cancer was announced by NPR, where she remained an occasional contributor following her retirement from full-time reporting in 2010.
Anne Garrels Cause of Death
She died from lung cancer on September 7, 2022, aged 71.
