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Anne Longworth Garrels (July 2, 1951 – September 7, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, as well as ABC and NBC.
Anne Longworth Garrels was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on July 2, 1951, the daughter of Valerie (Smith) and John C. Garrels, Jr.[1] She spent part of her childhood in London, where her father worked as an executive for Monsanto.[1] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley.[1]
Garrels returned to the United States and enrolled at Middlebury College, but later transferred to Harvard University's Radcliffe College, where she studied Russian and graduated in 1972.
Garrels retired from NPR in 2010. In 2016, she published her second book, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.[1]
When the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine erupted, Garrels, then in her 70s, and in ill health, attempted to get assigned to cover that war. Unable to do so, she started a non-profit organization to raise money to support Ukraine and victims of the war, particularly medical supplies, reportedly raising US$1,000,000 for the cause.
In 1986, Garrels married J. Vinton Lawrence, one of two CIA paramilitary officers from the Special Activities Division stationed in Laos in the early 1960s, who worked with Hmong tribesmen and the CIA-owned airline Air America. They were married until Lawrence's death from leukemia in 2016.
Garrels lived in Norfolk, Connecticut, where she died from lung cancer on September 7, 2022, aged 71
Anne Longworth Garrels was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on July 2, 1951, the daughter of Valerie (Smith) and John C. Garrels, Jr.[1] She spent part of her childhood in London, where her father worked as an executive for Monsanto.[1] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley.[1]
Garrels returned to the United States and enrolled at Middlebury College, but later transferred to Harvard University's Radcliffe College, where she studied Russian and graduated in 1972.
Garrels retired from NPR in 2010. In 2016, she published her second book, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.[1]
When the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine erupted, Garrels, then in her 70s, and in ill health, attempted to get assigned to cover that war. Unable to do so, she started a non-profit organization to raise money to support Ukraine and victims of the war, particularly medical supplies, reportedly raising US$1,000,000 for the cause.
In 1986, Garrels married J. Vinton Lawrence, one of two CIA paramilitary officers from the Special Activities Division stationed in Laos in the early 1960s, who worked with Hmong tribesmen and the CIA-owned airline Air America. They were married until Lawrence's death from leukemia in 2016.
Garrels lived in Norfolk, Connecticut, where she died from lung cancer on September 7, 2022, aged 71
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