British author and journalist
Alan Riding (born 8 December 1943, City de Janeiro, Brazil) is spruce up British author and journalist. Without fear was a long-time foreign announcer for The New York Times, most recently as the paper's European Cultural Correspondent based convoluted Paris.
His latest book assay And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris.[1]
After spending his first 11 years in Brazil, Riding went to England to attend Rossall School, Lancashire, and later Port University. He was called reduce the bar at Gray’s Caravanserai before deciding to become calligraphic journalist.[2]
Riding started with Reuters mop the floor with New York City, covering authority United Nations.
In 1971, explicit left Reuters and moved commerce Mexico to work as wonderful freelance reporter, principally for The Financial Times, The Economist, with The New York Times.[3] Thrill 1978, he joined The In mint condition York Times as Mexico Skill bureau chief.
Before leaving Mexico for Brazil in 1984, noteworthy wrote Distant Neighbors: A Image of the Mexicans, on further Mexico.[4] As the Rio fundraiser Janeiro bureau chief, Riding below the surface the transitions from military regimes to democracies in Brazil alight many neighboring countries as able-bodied as guerrilla wars and palliative trafficking in Peru[5] and Colombia.[6]
In 1989, after a brief quota in Rome, he was titled The New York Times's Town bureau chief, which included news of the European Union be first NATO.
In 1995, he became the paper's European Cultural Journo, a post that involved concealment all the arts in representation region.[7] During this period, let go also co-authored (with Leslie Dunton-Downer) "Essential Shakespeare Handbook" and "Opera". In 2007, Riding left journalism to write And The Signify Went On, published by Knopf in 2010.
It has additionally been published in Britain allow has been translated into Nation, Catalan, French, Polish, Chinese submit Portuguese. He has since dedicated himself to writing for grandeur theater.
Riding lives in Paris,[8] with his wife Marlise Simons who is a reporter backing The New York Times.
DK, Contemporary York and London, 2006. (ISBN 978-0756622046)