Kitty Pilgrim
Kathryn Pilgrim known professionally as Kitty Pilgrim is a former CNN anchor and correspondent and author of popular fiction. Her latest international thriller is THE EXPLORER'S CODE. http://www.kittypilgrim.com
Based on her 24 year career as a CNN journalist, Pilgrim now writes a series of international romantic thrillers published by Scribner.
JOURNALIST
For 24 years Kitty Pilgrim was a New York based anchor and correspondent for CNN. Her travels have taken her on special assignments to Russia, Cuba, China, Japan, South Korea, Europe and parts of Africa. In domestic reporting she covered economics, politics and a range of other topics. She was part of the CNN team that broadcast continuously in New York during the 9-11 attack and in the weeks thereafter.
[1], Kitty Pilgrim was a New York-based anchor and correspondent for CNN beginning with CNN in 1986 as a production assistant, and was named correspondent shortly thereafter. Pilgrim anchored her own broadcast, Early Edition, in 1998 and 1999 and served as an anchor for CNN, CNNI, CNNfn, and Headline News for more than a decade. Starting in 2001, Pilgrim served as prime time back up anchor for Lou Dobbs during the broadcast of the financial news program Moneyline and, until 2009, Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Pilgrim also served as a correspondent for CNN's Southeast Bureau and was the lead correspondent in CNN's coverage of the Birmingham, Alabama anti-abortion violence in 1998 and the subsequent hunt for suspect Eric Rudolph. She was also part of the CNN Moneyline team that won an Overseas Press Club Award for its week of live broadcasts from Havana, Cuba, in 1995. Pilgrim has won many other awards in the television industry including an Emmy, Peabody, Dupont award and New York Society of Black Journalists Award.
AUTHOR
Using her reporting skills and knowledge international affairs, Pilgrim writes romantic thrillers with an international flavor, featuring an archaeologist John Sinclair, and a female oceanographer, Cordelia Stapleton. THE EXPLORER'S CODE is the first in the series. (Scribner 2011) Pilgrim's novels are "fact based fiction" - certain events and locations are true to life. Her thrillers are characterized by their diverse locations and "around the world" approach. The Explorer's Code includes such locations as Monaco, Paris, London, Ephesus Turkey and the high arctic in Norway.
In 2010, Pilgrim signed a two-book deal with New York publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. [1] Her debut novel, 'THE EXPLORER'S CODE, mass market paperback will be available in June 2012, and sequel to the Explorer's Code will be released in time for the summer reading season of 2012. It is a continuation of the adventures of her characters John Sinclair and Cordelia Stapleton, entitled THE SARDONYX CUP.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Pilgrim is a graduate of Manhattanville College and has a master’s from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. She attended the Harriman Institute for Russian Studies at Columbia University. Pilgrim was also a fellow at the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg Austria, for Asian Pacific security, and a fellow at the East West Center in Honolulu for Asian economic and security issues. Pilgrim was a Hong Kong journalism fellow, and a fellow in the East West Center's Korean Journalism exchange.
In January 2000, Pilgrim was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations and was an active participant in the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs Roundtable on Foreign Policy.
Pilgrim is a full member of the historic Explorer's Club of New York City. an organization dedicated to the advancement of field research. Since its inception in 1904, the Club has served as a meeting point and unifying force for explorers and scientists
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Kathryn Pilgrim is the great niece of Olympic Gold medalist Paul Henry Pilgrim, who won three gold medals at the 1904 and 1906 Summer Olympics. Pilgrim has two sons, William Blackwell Croxton and Beau Campion Croxton.
[edit] References
- ^ "Dealmaker Scribner". Publishers Marketplace. 2010-04-28. http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/cgi-bin/dealmaker.pl?id=2532. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
