Blaine Harden

Blaine Harden (born 1952) is an American journalist and author. His 2012 book Escape From Camp 14 is an official biography of North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk.

Journalism

Harden worked for 28 years for The Washington Post as a correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as in New York and Seattle.[1] Harden worked for 4 years as a local and national correspondent for The New York Times and a writer for the Times Magazine. He has also worked as a reporter for Frontline, The Economist, Foreign Policy, National Geographic and The Guardian.[1]

Books

Harden's debut book was in 1990, called Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent.[2]

His second book was in 1996, titled A River Lost about the damming of the wild Columbia river and its ecological consequences. Harden and his book are featured in the PBS American Experience program titled Grand Coulee Dam, about the Grand Coulee Dam.[3][4][5]

His third book came out in 2012 titled Escape from Camp 14. It is an official biography of North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk.[6][7][8] In January 2015, Harden announced that Shin had admitted to lying about several aspects of his story.[9]

Harden's fourth book The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot was released in March 2015.[10] It is a dual biography of Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea and No Kum-sok, a defector who stole a MiG-15 and landed it in South Korea.[11]

Works

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 "About". blaineharden.com. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Africa: Dispatches from a fragile continent". African Affairs. 1992. doi:10.1093/afraf/91.362.163. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Grand Coulee Dam". American Experience. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ "A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ "A River Lost". Kirkus Reviews. May 1, 1996. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  6. ↑ Andrew Salmon (April 27, 2012). ""Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden". Washington Post. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  7. ↑ Janet Maslin (April 11, 2012). "The Casual Horrors of Life in a North Korean Hell". New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  8. ↑ Andrew Anthony (April 13, 2012). "Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden – review". The Guardian. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  9. ↑ Anna Fifield (17 January 2015). "Prominent N. Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk admits parts of story are inaccurate". Washington Post.
  10. ↑ "The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot". Kirkus Reviews. December 11, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  11. ↑ Terry Hong (March 19, 2015). "'The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot' presents a riveting slice of North Korean history". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Past Winners : 1985". Livingston Award. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  13. ↑ ASNE (1988). ASNE: Proceedings of the Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The Society. p. 321. Retrieved December 21, 2014. Our first winner this morning, in the category of non-deadline writing, is Blaine Harden, African correspondent for the Washington Post.
  14. ↑ "Previous Winners" (PDF). Scripps Howard Foundation. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Le Grand prix de la biographie politique pour Blaine Harden". magazine-litteraire.com (in French). November 19, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  16. ↑ "2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Retrieved December 21, 2014.

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