Barbara Demick is a prize-winning author and foreign correspondent. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages. Her newest book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption and Separated Twins was published by Random House May 20, 2025 and has been listed by the New York Times among the best 25 books of the year. Previous books include Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town and Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, which won the U.K.’s top nonfiction prize, Samuel Johnson Award (now Baillie Gifford). She’s been a finalist for the Pulitzer, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award and has won awards from the Overseas Press Club, Polk Award and Robert F. Kennedy Foundation and Asia Society. Demick was based in Beijing for the Los Angeles Times from 2007 to 2014, and in previous postings covered Korea, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. She is a contributor to The New Yorker, a former press fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations and has taught a course at Princeton University in covering repressive regimes.