Kati Marton
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Kati Marton (b. 4 February 1949) is an American author and journalist. Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radio as well as print journalism and writing a number of books.
She is the chairwoman of the International Women's Health Coalition, and a director (former chairwoman) of the Committee to Protect Journalists and other bodies including the International Rescue Committee, Human Rights Watch and the New America Foundation.
She has received several honors for her reporting, including the 2001 Rbekah Kohut Humanitarian Award by the National Council of Jewish Women.
Kati Marton was born in Hungary, the daughter of UPI reporter Ilona Marton. Her parents survived the Holocaust of World War II but never spoke about it. Raised a Roman Catholic, she only learned late in life and by accident from a third party that her grandparents were exterminated at Auschwitz concentration camp.
She studied at the Sorbonne, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. She has a master's degree in international relations from George Washington University. The late Peter Jennings was her third husband. They had two children together. She is now married to Richard Holbrooke.
Her latest book, The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World, released in October of 2006 to coincide with 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, has received wide critical acclaim.
[edit] Selected writing
- Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History, Anchor (2001, reprint 2002) ISBN 0385721889
- The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World, (2006) Simon & Schuster ISBN 0743261151
