Barbara Demick, having grown up in Ridgewood New Jersey, began reporting international situations while working for the Philadelphia Inquirer as a journalist in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. During a war in Bosnia, she was living in Sarajevo and wrote her first book titled Logavina Street: Life and Death in Sarajevo Neighborhood. She captured the essence of daily life during the war and won the George Polk Award and Robert F. Kennedy award for her reporting.
Working later for the Los Angeles Times, Barbara Demick moved to Seoul, South Korea in 2001. She spent time interviewing North Koreans who had defected from North Korea. Her reporting won her the Overseas Press Club Award, the Asia Society’s Osborne Eliott award, and the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Award. She released her second book, Nothing to Envy in 2009. Demick now lives in Beijing China, working as the Los Angeles Times’ bureau chief.
"About Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy." Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. http://nothingtoenvy.com/about-barbara- demick/.
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