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Ann Louise Bardach authored Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She also edited The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro and Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion, and participated in The Brookings Institution's Cuba Study Project.
As a reporter for The Daily Beast/Newsweek and a former Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair for a decade, Bardach has contributed to The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, among others. Her television appearances include 60 Minutes, Today, Dateline, CNN, Nightline, The O'Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose, National Public Radio, and PRI's Marketplace. She created and wrote the Global Buzz column for Newsweek International and the Interrogation column for Slate.
In 1995, she received the PEN USA Award for Journalism for her Vanity Fair reporting on Mexican politics and was a finalist in 1994 for her coverage of women in Islamic countries. Cuba Confidential was a finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and the PEN USA Award for Best Nonfiction, and was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times.
Bardach was also a finalist for the 2005 PEN USA Journalism Award for her groundbreaking article on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's connections with tabloids, published in Los Angeles magazine.
She founded the International Journalism class at the University of California, Santa Barbara, serves on the boards of PEN USA and UCSB's Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media, and is a Resident Scholar at UCSB's Orfalea Center.