| Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden's voice from her frequent work as a substitute program host on NPR, where she can currently be heard on the weekend broadcasts of "All Things Considered". Lyden joined NPR in 1979, becoming one of its first correspondents stationed outside Washington and joining Scott Simon in the then newly-opened Chicago bureau. In 1989, Lyden became NPR's London correspondent, where her coverage included a number of stories on the IRA in Northern Ireland. In the summer of 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and Lyden went immediately to Amman, Jordan, where she covered the Gulf War from there, Baghdad and many other Middle Eastern countries. Her work supported NPR's 1991 win of an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Gulf War Coverage. Since that time, she has reported from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, and other countries, and in 1995 did a groundbreaking series for NPR on Iran. Her pieces for NPR included the 2006 documentary, "Anatomy of a Shooting". The investigative piece, which aired on June 23, 2006, recounts the death of Lyden's own translator at the hands of an American soldier, who Lyden has since come to know well. Both Harvard and Yale are teaching the documentary. Lyden is also working on a new book, "Vox Babylonia", due out in 2009 from Houghton Mifflin. A memoir of Iraq, it covers four years of journeys across the war there and focuses intimately on Iraqi civilians whose lives interact with hers. Lyden's ... |
