Ann Louise Bardach Biography

Ann Louise Bardach is a critically-acclaimed author, speaker and award-winning reporter with a broad array of expertise. She is widely considered the go-to reporter on all things Cuba and Miami. She is also regarded as the leading journalistic authority on Vivekananda, the first missionary from the East to the West who popularized yoga and Vedanta in the U.S. and Europe in the late 1890s. Her articles on Swami Vivekananda, the Patriot Saint of India, in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journals magazine garnered international attention and acclaim, leading to both a book and film deal.

In 2013, the government of India will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Vivekananda™s birth. Celebrations are scheduled in every major city in India throughout the year to commemorate the young monk from Calcutta who fundamentally changed the way that millions of people think about the world and themselves.
Ann Louise Bardach is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal magazine, was a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair for a decade and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

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

She has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Dateline, CNN, Nightline, The OReilly Factor, Charlie Rose and has been a guest on National Public Radio dozens of times, as well as PRIs Marketplace. Ms. Bardach also created and wrote the Global Buzz column for Newsweek International and the Interrogation column for Slate.

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