Claire Sterling
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Claire Sterling nee Neikind (October 21, 1919 - June 17, 1995) was an American author and journalist.
Sterling received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York, where she was also born. Earlier she received a degree in economics from Brooklyn College, worked as a union organizer, and was briefly member of the Young Communist League.[1] She joined The Reporter in 1949, writing for the magazine until it folded in 1968, became an author and freelance journalist thereafter, writing for various newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post and Reader's Digest. She married her husband Thomas Sterling, a novelist, in 1950, and they went to live in Italy, where they passed their honeymoon. She died of cancer at age 75, in a hospital in Arezzo, Italy.
[edit] Work as an author
Sterling's first book revisited the 1948 death of Jan Masaryk, the Czechoslovakian foreign minister who died under suspicious circumstances. More controversial were her books The Terror Network (1981) and The Time of the Assassins (1984). In the former book, which was translated into 22 languages, she claimed that Soviet Union was a major source of backing behind terrorist groupings around the world. The latter book dealt with the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John II, in which she blamed the Bulgarian secret service for ordering the attack, the so-called "Bulgarian Connection."
[edit] Books
- Our Goal Was Palestine" (1947)
- The Masaryk Case (1969)
- The Terror Network (1981)
- The Time of the Assassins (1984)
- Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia (1990)
- Crime Without Frontiers (1994)
- Thieves' World: The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized Crime (1994)
