Katherine Ellison

When I was 11 years old, Archie Comics paid me $10 for an essay I wrote about my Miniature Schnauzer. I was hooked on reporting from that moment on.

A decade or so later, after five years of covering local issues for the San Jose Mercury News, I won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for my part in a series about corruption by Philippines rulers Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. From 1987-99 I covered Latin America, first from Mexico City and then from Rio de Janeiro for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Since that time I've been working independently, including authoring and co-authoring 10 non-fiction books. I live in Marin County with my husband and two dogs.