KAREN DEYOUNG

“DeYoung brings nuance and psychological depth to her analysis.” — Salon

Karen DeYoung is associate editor and senior national security correspondent for The Washington Post. In more than three decades at the paper, she has served as bureau chief in Latin America and London, and as correspondent covering the White House, U.S. foreign policy, and the intelligence community.

DeYoung has won a number of awards, including the 2003 Edward Weintal Award for Diplomatic Reporting, Sigma Delta Chi awards for investigative reporting and foreign reporting, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Latin American Reporting, and a Pulitzer Prize she shared with her Washington Post colleagues for national coverage of the war on terrorism.

DeYoung is the author of the critically acclaimed biography of Colin Powell: SOLDIER: THE LIFE OF COLIN POWELL.

She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and their two children.