Alan Riding

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Alan Riding
Born (1943-12-08) 8 December 1943 (age 81)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
OccupationJournalist
author
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Rossall School
Bristol University
GenreNon-fiction
Website
www.alanriding.com

Alan Riding (born 8 December 1943, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a British author and journalist. He was a long-time foreign correspondent for The New York Times , most recently as the paper's European Cultural Correspondent based in Paris. His latest book is And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. [1]

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Early life

After spending his first 11 years in Brazil, Riding went to England to attend Rossall School, Lancashire, and later Bristol University. He was called to the bar at Gray’s Inn before deciding to become a journalist. [2]

Career

Riding started with Reuters in New York City, covering the United Nations. In 1971, he left Reuters and moved to Mexico to work as a freelance reporter, principally for The Financial Times , The Economist , and The New York Times . [3] In 1978, he joined The New York Times as Mexico City bureau chief. Before leaving Mexico for Brazil in 1984, he wrote Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans, on modern Mexico. [4] As the Rio de Janeiro bureau chief, Riding covered the transitions from military regimes to democracies in Brazil and many neighboring countries as well as guerrilla wars and drug trafficking in Peru [5] and Colombia. [6]

In 1989, after a brief stint in Rome, he was named The New York Times's Paris bureau chief, which included coverage of the European Union and NATO. In 1995, he became the paper's European Cultural Correspondent, a post that involved covering all the arts in the region. [7] During this period, he also co-authored (with Leslie Dunton-Downer) "Essential Shakespeare Handbook" and "Opera". In 2007, Riding left journalism to write And The Show Went On, published by Knopf in 2010. It has also been published in Britain and has been translated into Spanish, Catalan, French, Polish, Chinese and Portuguese. He has since devoted himself to writing for the theater.

Riding lives in Paris, [8] with his wife Marlise Simons who is a reporter for The New York Times.

Awards

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