Lara Marlowe author biography, plus links to books by Lara Marlowe.

Lara Marlowe

Lara Marlowe was born in California and studied French at UCLA and the Sorbonne and International Relations at Oxford. She started her career as an associate producer for CBS's 60 Minutes programme in Paris, then moved to Beirut where she worked for eight years for the Financial Times and TIME magazine. She has reported for a host of broadcast and print media, and was a staff foreign correspondent, based in Paris and Washington, for The Irish Times from 1996 to 2023. Marlowe has covered more than a dozen wars and won four press awards. She was made Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 2006 for her contribution to Franco-Irish relations.

Marlowe has completed three long reporting stints in Ukraine for The Irish Times since Russia's invasion on 24 February 2022. She is the author of Love in a Time of War (2021), Painted with Words (2011) and The Things I've Seen (2010).

This biography was last updated on 02/04/2025.

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