Georgie Anne Geyer

Georgie Anne Geyer (April 2, 1935 – May 15, 2019) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and author of 10 books. In January 2001 she received an "Outstanding Illinoisan Award" from the Illinois State Society of Washington, DC.

• Israeli officials will tell you privately that "If the Arabs were ever to win, we would use the atom bomb."
  • The New 100 Years War. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company. 1972. p. ix.  (xviii+318 pages)

• Like so many things, it all started with a small obsession. When I was only seven or eight, I used to lie in my comfortable old German bed at night, in every respect a most loved and blessed child, and think about it. What, I would wonder for reasons I have never totally understood, if only one person had the truth and that person was a woman? She would not voice it because the women I knew did not speak out, and so the world would be denied this crucial truth.
  • Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent. University of Chicago Press. 2001. p. 25. ISBN 9780226289915.  (1st edition 1983, Delacorte Press Radcliffe Biography Series)

• * … her travels … became more frequent after she left the Daily News in 1974 to become a Washington-based syndicated columnist, with her work carried in more than 120 newspapers. She boldly ventured into many dangerous climes and into face-to-face encounters not only with Castro and a number of U.S. presidents, but also with such world leaders as Argentina’s Juan Perón, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, Yasser Arafat and, in the first interview he granted to a Western journalist, Saddam Hussein when he was Iraq’s vice president in 1973.
  • Rick Kogan, (May 16, 2019)"Georgie Anne Geyer, trailblazing foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist, dies".

• Encyclopedic article on Georgie Anne Geyer on Wikipedia