PERSON: Elaine Sciolino

Writer

Elaine Sciolino is a writer for The New York Times and former NYT Paris bureau chief, based in France since 2002. She writes the “Letter from Paris” column for the The New York Times “Dining” section and for “T,” the style magazine. She is writing a book on a street in Paris for W.W. Norton & Co. In 2010, she was decorated a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, the highest honor of the French state, for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States.

Sciolino began her journalism career as a researcher at Newsweek Magazine in New York, later becoming national correspondent in Chicago, foreign correspondent in Paris, bureau chief in Rome and roving international correspondent. Sciolino was the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1982-1983, the first woman to receive that honor.

She joined The New York Times in 1984, where she has held a number of posts, including United Nations’ bureau chief, Central Intelligence Agency correspondent, Culture correspondent and chief diplomatic correspondent – the first woman to hold that post.

Her recent writings on Iran have received awards for excellence by organizations in the U.S. and France. Sciolino lives in Paris with her husband, Andrew Plump, an attorney. They have two daughters, Alessandra and Gabriela Plump.

— nytimes.com