Carole Radziwill

CAROLE RADZIWILL is a journalist and author. She began her career at ABC News working for Peter Jennings’ documentary unit, Peter Jennings Reporting. While there she reported on foreign stories in Cambodia, Haiti, India and Israel. As an associate producer, Carole traveled extensively in Southeast Asia reporting and filming in refugee camps, and with Khmer Rouge soldiers, for the award-winning documentary titled “From the Killing Fields.” As a field producer, she was stationed in Israel for several weeks during the Gulf War and traveled with Israeli military personnel filming aftermath of Hussein’s SCUD missile attacks. After the war she produced a story on Iraq’s nuclear facilities for “A Line in the Sand: What Did America Win?” the third in a trilogy of Peter Jennings Specials analyzing political and national security reasons behind and for the Gulf War. She also produced stories for the news magazine shows 20/20 and Primetime Live including writing and producing the story of Vietnam Vet Bobby Muller’s anti-landmine campaign in Cambodia. While Carole was honored with an EMMY award for the segment, Bobby went on to win the Nobel Peace prize for his work on landmines. Her journalism garnered her two more EMMY awards, a Robert F. Kennedy Humanitarian award, and a GLADD award for the story of Billy Bean, the first openly gay baseball player. During the 2001 Afghan War Carole spent 3 weeks filming with the U.S. Airforce stationed at Charleston, South Carolina military base. From Charleston she flew with an Air Force unit on a C-130 cargo plane to Rhein-Main U.S. military base in Germany and eventually to Afghanistan where she spent nearly 4 weeks embedded with an infantry unit of the 101st Airborne Division. While stationed at the U.S. military base in Khandahar, she produced segments that aired on an ABC-TV series called Profiles From the Frontline.

In 2003, Carole left ABC News to write her first book, a memoir entitled What Remains. The book, which was published by Scribner in 2005 and became a national bestseller, traces her life from a child growing up in a boisterous & unconventional working class family living in upstate New York, to her start in journalism, through her marriage to a fellow ABC News producer; then through a series of tragedies -- including the death of her husband-- all in the space of three weeks. Her moving story has been featured on 20/20, Charlie Rose and Larry King Live and chronicled in Newsweek, People and Vogue magazines. In a *starred review* the Library Journal called it a “beautifully written…courageous and compelling memoir.” It was nominated for “Books for a Better Life” award and spent over 16 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Carole then signed with Conde Nast Glamour magazine to write a monthly column in which she interviews celebrated people from the worlds of politics, popular culture, media and fashion. The premiere column called Lunch Date featured CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Other columns included wide ranging interviews with former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, actors Alec Baldwin & Ashton Kutcher, ‘80s musical icon Jon Bon Jovi, English royalty Prince Andrew, Hollywood royalty Annette Bening, and the multi-talented Harry Connick Jr. among many more. She has also been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Harpers Bazaar and Women & Health magazine. Carole recently signed a contract with Bravo TV to be a new cast member in Season Five of The Real Housewives of New York.

In addition to her professional achievements, Carole earned a B.A. at Hunter College, a MBA at New York University, and was a finalist for the John C. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. She is currently working on her first novel, a fictionalized sequel to her memoir, entitled A Widows Guide to Sex & Dating. Carole lives in the West Village with her dog, a Boxer named Margaret.