Barbara Demick
American journalist and author
Barbara Demick is an American journalist who reported for the Los Angeles Times and wrote Nothing to Envy, a book about ordinary lives in North Korea.
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American Born in Ridgewood, United States
About Barbara Demick
Barbara Demick worked as a foreign correspondent. She reported from Eastern Europe and the Middle East for the Philadelphia Inquirer, then joined the Los Angeles Times, where she served as bureau chief in Seoul and in Beijing. Her newspaper series on a single Sarajevo street during the war in Bosnia won the George Polk Award for international reporting. Her North Korea reporting was honored by the Overseas Press Club for its coverage of human rights. In 2010 the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction went to Nothing to Envy, which was also a National Book Award finalist. She has also written Eat the Buddha and Daughters of the Bamboo Grove.