5/7/2023 0 Comments Anthony shadid books![]() ![]() His marriage was derailed by “the lethal aspects” of his career. “The Middle East that had fascinated, preoccupied, and saddened me for decades was gone.” Three generations after World War I drove his family out of Lebanon to Oklahoma City, the swashbuckling Lebanese Christian reporter was no longer welcome at the home he shared with his young daughter and wife in suburban Maryland. “I was a suitcase and a laptop drifting on a conveyer belt,” he writes. After three years covering the Iraq war for the Washington Post, he was worn out. In 2006, when the book begins, Shadid was at a crossroads. His third and final book chronicles the last emotional commitment he honored before he died in Syria in 2012, of an apparent asthma attack he suffered while working as the Beirut Bureau chief for The New York Times. “I have not always been a man who kept his promises, and I have never been the type to stay home,” admits the late Pulitzer-Prize winning Middle East correspondent Anthony Shadid, in his passionate and moving posthumous memoir House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East. ![]() Today in our series, NBCC board member Susan Shapiro offers an appreciation of autobiography finalist House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Anthony Shadid. In the weeks leading up to the February 28 announcement of the 2012 NBCC award winners, Critical Mass highlights the thirty finalists. ![]()
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