Alan Riding
Journalist, New York TImes
Alan Riding, born in Brazil of British parents, is a veteran correspondent of The New York Times, now based in Paris as the paper's European Cultural Correspondent.
An economist and lawyer by training, Riding entered journalism with Reuters in 1966. After an assignment in New York, he spent the 1970's and 1980's covering Latin America, first for The Financial Times, then for The New York Times. In 1989, Riding became Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, a post he held until 1994 when he turned his attention entirely to cultural affairs.
Riding is author of the best-selling book, "Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans" (Knopf), which has sold over 450,000 copies worldwide. He is also co-author of "Essential Shakespeare Handbook," a reference book to all of Shakespeare's plays and poetry published by Dorling Kindersley in April 2004.
