E-mail a friendMarch 28, 2007
NBC News correspondent Jane Arraf discusses the latest news from Iraq. Author Anne Lamott talks about sharing her experiences in her new book, Grace (Eventually).
Jane Arraf
Jane Arraf
Now an NBC News correspondent, Jane Arraf spent 8 years as CNN Baghdad Bureau Chief and reported on Iraq from crisis through war. After the '91 war, she was the only Western correspondent based there. She was expelled by the Iraqi government in the fall of '02, but returned after major combat operations ended. Arraf began her career as a Reuters correspondent and went on to report/produce for Reuters Financial Television. She was also the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott's best-selling books have been about such personal subjects as alcohol and drug abuse, single motherhood and Christianity. A Guggenheim fellowship recipient, she's been a book reviewer and a California restaurant critic. The San Francisco native has also taught at writing conferences across the U.S. In her latest book, Grace (Eventually), Lamott recounts the roadblocks in her walk of faith, and, for the first time, one of her novels, Hard Laughter, will be dramatized on stage this spring.