Blaine Harden

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Blaine Harden (born 1952) is an American journalist and author. His 2012 book Escape from Camp 14 is an official biography of North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk.

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Journalism

Harden worked for 28 years for The Washington Post as a correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as in New York and Seattle. [1] Harden worked for 4 years as a local and national correspondent for The New York Times and a writer for the Times Magazine . He has also worked as a reporter for Frontline , The Economist , Foreign Policy , National Geographic and The Guardian . [1]

Books

Harden's debut book was in 1990, called Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent. [2]

His second book was in 1996, titled A River Lost about the damming of the wild Columbia river and its ecological consequences. Harden and his book are featured in the PBS American Experience program titled Grand Coulee Dam, about the Grand Coulee Dam. [3] [4] [5]

His third book came out in 2012 titled Escape from Camp 14. It is an official biography of North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk. [6] [7] [8] In January 2015, Harden announced that Shin had admitted to lying about several aspects of his story. [9]

Harden's fourth book The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot was released in March 2015. [10] It is a dual biography of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea and No Kum-sok, a defector who stole a MiG-15 and landed it in South Korea. [11]

Harden's fifth book King of Spies was released in October 2017. It is a biography of Air Force Major Donald Nichols, an intelligence officer who operated for 11 years in Korea before, during, and after the Korean War.

In 2021, Harden published Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West, which examines the Whitman massacre. [12]

Works

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 Harden, Blaine (August 2011). "About". Blain Harden website. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  2. ↑ Armour, C. (1992). "Africa: Dispatches from a fragile continent". African Affairs . 91 (362): 163–164. doi:10.1093/afraf/91.362.163. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21.
  3. ↑ "Grand Coulee Dam". American Experience . Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  4. ↑ "A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia". Publishers Weekly . May 1996. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  5. ↑ "A River Lost". Kirkus Reviews . May 1, 1996. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  6. ↑ Salmon, Andrew (April 27, 2012). "Escape From Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden". The Washington Post . Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  7. ↑ Maslin, Janet (April 11, 2012). "The Casual Horrors of Life in a North Korean Hell". The New York Times . Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  8. ↑ Anthony, Andrew (April 13, 2012). "Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  9. ↑ Fifield, Anna (January 17, 2015). "Prominent N. Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk admits parts of story are inaccurate". The Washington Post .
  10. ↑ "The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot". Kirkus Reviews . December 11, 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  11. ↑ Hong, Terry (March 19, 2015). "'The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot' presents a riveting slice of North Korean history". The Christian Science Monitor . Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  12. ↑ Berry, Lorraine (April 22, 2021). "How a journalist unraveled a gory founding myth of the Pacific Northwest". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  13. ↑ "Past Winners : 1985". Livingston Award . Archived from the original on 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  14. ↑ ASNE (1988). ASNE: Proceedings of the Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The Society. p. 321. Retrieved 2014-12-21. Our first winner this morning, in the category of non-deadline writing, is Blaine Harden, African correspondent for the Washington Post.
  15. ↑ "Previous Winners" (PDF). Scripps Howard Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  16. ↑ "Le Grand prix de la biographie politique pour Blaine Harden". magazine-litteraire.com (in French). November 19, 2012. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  17. ↑ "2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Archived from the original on 2013-08-24. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
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