Ann Louise Bardach

Ann Louise Bardach
Genres	journalism non-fiction
Notable awards	PEN USA Award for Journalism

Ann Louise Bardach [A.L. Bardach] is an American journalist and non-fiction author. Bardach is best known for her work on Cuba and Miami and was called "the go-to journalist on all things Cuban and Miami," by the Columbia Journalism Review, having interviewed dozens of key players including Fidel Castro,^[1] sister Juanita Castro, anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles, CIA and Watergate plumber E. Howard Hunt,^[2] anti-Castro militant Orlando Bosch and CIA operative Felix Rodriguez, who was present for the assassination of Che Guevara.^[3]

Bardach's book Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington was cited as a authoritative work on Cuba under the Castros^[4] and named one of The Miami Herald's "Ten Best Books of 2009." Tom Wolfe described it as "news between hard covers by a relentless reporter who writes like a dream."^[5] Her book Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana was widely praised: Gay Talese described Bardach's work on Cuba as "fearless and gutsy - America's answer to Oriana Fallaci." Some of her journalism has been anthologized in KILLED: Journalism Too Hot To Print and In Mexico in Mind. Bardach was a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair for ten years and has written for The New York Times, POLITICO, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, The Financial Times, The New Republic and the Los Angeles Times. She has appeared on numerous television programs including 60 Minutes, Today, Good Morning America, Dateline NBC, CNN, The O'Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose and has been frequently heard on NPR and the BBC. Bardach started the Global Buzz column for Newsweek International and created The Interrogation column for Slate.^[6]