Diana Jean Schemo
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Diana Jean Schemo is an author and journalist, a veteran national and foreign correspondent with more than twenty-five years at the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun. She has covered poverty and child abuse, religion and culture. The Times nominated her coverage of education for a Pulitzer Prize in 2003. As bureau chief for the Times in Rio de Janeiro from 1995 to 1999, Schemo tracked the drug war in Colombia, and that country's brutal conflict between leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitaries. Her stories chronicled the rise of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, counterfeiting in Paraguay, indentured servitude in Brazil, and journeys to the heartland of Brazil, where she wrote of previously uncontacted native tribes. Before joining the Times, Schemo became the first woman assigned overseas for the Baltimore Sun, heading the paper's West European bureau in Paris and, later, Berlin. She covered the trial of Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon," nuclear arms negotiations, the Kurdish exodus from Iraq following the first Gulf War, and the collapse of Communism in East Germany. She has reported from more than twenty-five countries and region, from Somalia to Israel, Iraq to the Amazon. Schemo's work has also appeared in Ms., Marie Claire, New York and the New York Times magazines. Skies to Conquer is her first book.
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