ROBERT I. FRIEDMAN died July 2 at age 51 at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital in New York City of complications of a rare pneumonia he contracted in the slums of Bombay, India while on assignment for Vanity Fair on a story of sexual slavery. The piece ran
A new book by YVONNE BASKIN, “A Plague of Rats and Rubbervine: The Growing Threat of Species Invasions,” was just published by Island Press. Yvonne shows how such species as zebra mussels, kudzu and water hyacinth disrupt biodiversity when moved into new territory. Yvonne lives
MICHAEL D’ANTONIO and Andrew Spielman have written “Mosquito: The Story of Man’s Deadliest Foe.” It was published in June by Science/Hyperion Books.
The Nieman Foundation selected Alma Guillermoprieto as a fellow this year. Alma, a contributor to The New Yorker, also had her book about her year teaching ballet in Cuba, “Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution,” translated from the Spanish and published by Pantheon
“The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson,” by John Judis was published before the election by Simon & Schuster.
David Lamb’s latest book, “Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns,” was published this year by Public Affairs/ Perseus Books Group. Davis is the only newspaper reporter who covered the Vietnam War and later moved to Hanoi to cover the peace. David is back in the U.S.,
Simon & Schuster is issuing a new edition of ROBIN WRIGHT’s book, “Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam.” First published in 1985, the new edition has a chapter on Afghanistan, a new forward and new epilogue. Robin is the global affairs correspondent for the
Paula Stern, of the Stern Group, was given an award for promoting racial harmony by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, of New York. The group’s chairman is Russell Simmons.
