Anne-Marie O’Con­nor is a vet­er­an for­eign cor­re­spon­dent, war reporter and cul­ture writer who has cov­ered every­thing from post-Sovi­et Cuba to Amer­i­can artists and intel­lec­tu­als. O’Con­nor attend­ed Vas­sar and the San Fran­cis­co Art Insti­tute and grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at Berke­ley, where she and fel­low stu­dents co-cre­at­ed an award-win­ning doc­u­men­tary on the repres­sion of mur­al artists after the 1973 mil­i­tary coup in Chile. She cov­ered the wars in El Sal­vador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala as a Reuters bureau chief in Cen­tral Amer­i­ca; the Shin­ing Path guer­ril­las in Peru, coups in Haiti and U.S. inter­ven­tions in Haiti and Pana­ma; and cov­ered Cuba and Haiti for a news­pa­per chain. At the Los Ange­les Times she chron­i­cled the vio­lence of Mex­i­co’s Arel­lano-Felix drug car­tel, U.S. polit­i­cal con­ven­tion; and pro­filed such fig­ures as Nel­son Man­dela, George Soros, Joan Did­ion, John McCain, and Maya Lin. Her sto­ry on Maria Alt­man­n’s effort to recov­er the fam­i­ly Klimt col­lec­tion appeared in the Los Ange­les Times Mag­a­zine in 2001. She has writ­ten for Esquire, The Nation, and The Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor. She cur­rent­ly writes for The Wash­ing­ton Post from Jerusalem.