About the author

Anthony Collings, author of Words of Fire, worked for more than thirty years as a foreign and national correspondent. He reported for the Wall Street Journal in New York and for the Associated Press in Moscow, London and Bonn. Collings was Newsweek bureau chief in Bonn and London, and CNN bureau chief and correspondent in Rome, before coming to Washington as a CNN national affairs correspondent. He shared a National Headliner Award for his coverage of the Iran-Contra affair, and shared an Emmy for his coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. In addition to being detained by police in Damascus, Athens and Rome while covering the news, he was held at gunpoint, with a CNN crew in Lebanon in May 1981, by Syrian and Palestinian forces while covering a missile crisis. In 1997 he came to the University of Michigan as Visiting Marsh Professor of Journalism in the Department of Communication Studies, and is now a Lecturer in Communication Studies in the department.

To contact Anthony Collings with your comments about the book, email him at collings@umich.edu.

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