Shirley Christian

Shirley Christian is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, known for reporting on the Central American crisis during the 1970s and 1980s. Christian has worked as a foreign correspondent for the ''New York Times'''', Miami Herald'', and ''Associated Press''. Her book on the Nicaraguan Revolution, according to the ''Wall Street Journal'', “may stand as the definitive account of the fall of Anastasio Somoza and the rise of the Sandinistas.”

She is also the author of the 2004 history ''Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier''. Provided by Wikipedia