Georgie Anne Geyer
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Georgie Anne Geyer (born April 2, 1935) is a conservative American journalist and columnist for the Universal Press Syndicate. Her columns focus on foreign affairs issues and appear in approximately 120 newspapers in North and South America. She is the author of several books, including a biography of Fidel Castro.
Geyer was born in Chicago, and graduated from Calumet High School. She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1956, where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. She attended the University of Vienna on a Fulbright Scholarship. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Russian.
Her first job was with the Chicago Southtown Economist. From 1959 to 1974, Geyer was a reporter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, where she worked from society reporting to the news desk and eventually foreign correspondent. After leaving the paper, she began her syndicated column.
In 1973, she was the first Western reporter to interview Saddam Hussein, then Vice President of Iraq. She also interviewed Yasser Arafat, Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan, Muammar al-Gaddafi, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. She reported on rebels in the Dominican Republic, was held by authorities in Angola for her reporting during civil war, and was threatened with death by the Mano Blanca death squads in Guatemala.
Geyer has more than 21 honorary degrees, including three from Northwestern alone.
In an October 1996 letter published in the Chicago Tribune, now Judge Ramon Ocasio III criticized Geyer for anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic rhetoric in her Op-ed "The anti-Columbus Day march."[1]
Books
- Americans No More
- Buying the Night Flight: the Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent
- When Cats Reigned Like Kings: On the Trail of the Sacred Cats
- Guerrilla Prince (biography of Fidel Castro)
- Waiting for Winter to End (an extraordinary journey through Soviet Central Asia)
References
External links
- Biography at Universal Press Syndicate site
- Profile from Northwestern University
- Profile from the Chicago Headline Club
- Appearances on C-SPAN