Carole Radziwill
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Carole Di Falco Radziwiłł was born August 20,1968 and raised in Suffern, New York. She is a journalist/author.
[edit] Career
She started her news career at ABC, working on 20/20, a news magazine show. She eventually worked for Peter Jennings documentary unit, producing shows on abortion, gun control and covering foreign policy stories in Cambodia, Haiti and India. In 1991, Radziwill was stationed in Israel and reported on the SCUD missile attacks during the Gulf War. In 2003, during the War on Afghanistan, she spent 6 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. Radziwill won several awards, including three Emmys, one for a story she produced on landmines in Cambodia, and a Peabody.
[edit] Personal life
In 1994 she married Anthony Radziwill, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's sister, Lee Radziwill. Carole Radziwill's husband died on August 10, 1999 at age 40 after a five-year battle with cancer, and she left ABC News to write a memoir entitled "What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love," it was published (Fall 2005) by Scribner Publishing, and made the New York Times Best Seller list. Her book chronicles her childhood, her career at ABC News, as well as her effort to manage her husband's cancer. It brought the author a measure of fame through television interviews on such popular American programs as Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose and Larry King Live.
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. She lives in New York City.
