Carole Radziwill

Carole DiFalco Radziwiłł was born August 20, 1968 and raised in Suffern, New York. She is a journalist and author.

Career

"Carole DiFalco started her news career at ABC, working on "20/20", a news magazine show. She eventually worked for Peter Jennings's documentary unit, producing shows on abortion, gun control and covering foreign policy stories in Cambodia, Haiti and India.

In 1991, DiFalco was stationed in Israel and reported on the SCUD missile attacks during the Gulf War. In 2003, during the War on Afghanistan, she spent six weeks in Khandahar, embedded with an infantry unit of the 101st Airborne Division. She produced segments for an ABC-TV show called "Profiles From the Frontline". She won several awards, including three Emmys, one for a story she produced on landmines in Cambodia, and a Peabody.Fact|date=August 2008

Personal life

On 27 August 1994, in East Hampton, New York [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E1D61E39F93AA1575BC0A962958260] ] Carole married fellow ABC News producer Anthony Radziwill, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the only son of prince Stanislas Radziwill and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's sister, Lee Radziwill. earlier. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E1D61E39F93AA1575BC0A962958260] ] Anthony died on August 10, 1999 at age 40 after a five-year battle with cancer.Fact|date=August 2008

After her husband's death, Carole Radziwill left ABC News to write a memoir about her childhood, her career at ABC News, as well as her effort to manage her husband's cancer. "What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love" (Scribner, 2005) made the New York Times Best Seller list. A review of the book in the Times called it a "bittersweet account" that emphasized "graciousness over disclosure". [citeweb |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/books/review/30kantor.html? |title="Ask Not" - New York Times Book Review |publisher=The New York Times |date=October 30 2005 |author=Jodi Kantor] [citeweb |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/books/chapters/1030-1st-radziwill.html?8bu&emc=bu |title=What Remains, 1st Chapter |publisher=Republished with permission by the New York Times |author=Carole Radziwill |date=October 30, 2005] The style of the review was later protested by her brother, Anthony DiFalco, in a published letter to the New York Times. [citeweb |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E4DD1E3EF934A15752C1A9639C8B63 |title=Letter to the Editor |publisher=The New York Times |author=Anthony DiFalco |date=November 27, 2005]

In 2006, Radziwill signed with "Glamour" magazine to write a monthly column called "Lunch Date". Some of her notable Lunch Dates have included: former mayor Rudy Giuliani, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Rachel Weisz, and Alec Baldwin and Sheryl Crowe. Fact|date=August 2008

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