Alma Guillermoprieto

Alma Guillermoprieto worked for "The Washington Post" before joining "The New Yorker" in the late 1980s. She also writes for "The New York Review of Books". She is the author of two previous books, "Samba" & "The Heart That Bleeds" (both available from Vintage) & was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. She lives in Mexico City.