Anne-Marie O'Connor

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Anne-Marie O'Connor
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OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
Genrenon-fiction
Website
www.annemarieoconnor.com

Anne-Marie O'Connor is an American journalist and writer who authored The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. This bestselling story is about the eight-year legal battle by Vienna emigre Maria Altmann, represented by Los Angeles attorney E. Randol Schoenberg, to reclaim five Gustav Klimt paintings from her native Austria. [1] [2] This saga that also inspired a Harvey Weinstein movie, Woman in Gold, in which Helen Mirren played Maria Altmann. One of the paintings, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer , sold for a record $135 million in 2006 to Ronald Lauder's Neue Galerie New York, where the painting is on view.

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A longtime journalist in Latin America, O'Connor covered the civil wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador as a Central America bureau chief for Reuters. She was also a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times , the Miami Herald, UPI, and the Cox Newspaper chain, and she has written for Esquire, the Christian Science Monitor, and The Nation. She is a speaker on the subject of the Nazi plunder of art and restitution.

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