She interviewed world leaders, wrote several books and was a commentator on world affairs.
By Matt Schudel Matt Schudel Obituary writer Email Bio Follow May 18 Georgie Anne Geyer, a longtime foreign correspondent and columnist who covered international politics and conflicts in Africa, the Soviet Union, the Middle East and Latin America, and whose books included a critical biography of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, died May 15 at her home in Washington. She was 84.
First with the old Chicago Daily News and later as a syndicated columnist, Ms. Geyer achieved her dream and spent decades traveling the globe to chronicle revolutions, tyrants and, occasionally, quiet corners of peace. Reviewers agreed that Ms. Geyer was anything but fawning toward Castro’s policies and personal life. Among other things, she wrote about his many extramarital liaisons with women.
As years went by, Ms. Geyer was sometimes criticized for shoddy reporting and for what some readers perceived as a bias against Israel, particularly regarding its dealings with Palestinians. Others detected a bitter conservatism in her tone, culminating in her 1996 book “Americans No More: The Death of Citizenship,” in which she argued that too many newcomers to the United States were not adapting to the American way of life.
“Out in the newsroom — and the Chicago Daily News was typical of major newspapers of that era — a woman was as rare as a teetotaler,” Ms. Geyer’s onetime colleague columnist Mike Royko wrote in an introduction to her autobiography.
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