Elaine Sciolino

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Elaine F. Sciolino

Born	c. 1949
Birth place	Buffalo, New York
Circumstances
Occupation	journalist, author
Spouse	Andrew Plump
Children	Alessandra and Gabriela
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times; The Outlaw State, Persian Mirrors (books)

Elaine F. Sciolino is an American journalist who has been the Paris bureau chief of The New York Times since August of 2002.^[1]

Sciolino joined the Times in 1984. Previous posts at the Times include:

senior reporter, Washington bureau, focusing on national security and cultural issues
chief diplomatic correspondent
reporter focusing on the Central Intelligence Agency
diplomatic correspondent
United Nations bureau chief
metropolitan reporter

In October of 2007, the Times announced that Sciolino would be succeeded by Steven Erlanger as Paris bureau chief in early 2008. Sciolino would become a foreign correspondent focusing on terrorism abroad, based in Paris.

[edit] Personal

A daughter of Anthony R. Sciolino (d. 2002)[1] and his wife, the former Jeanette Limeri (d. 2005),[2] Sciolino was born in Buffalo, New York and has two siblings: Thomas and Marianne. She is married to Andrew Plump, an attorney, with whom she has two daughters, Alessandra and Gabriela.[3]

She received her B.A. from Canisius College in 1970 and her M.A. from New York University in 1971.

[edit] Bibliography

The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991. (hardcover) ASIN: B000AO4E3U (trade paperback) ISBN 0471542997 ISBN 978-0471542995
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran. New York: The Free Press, 2000. (Reissued edition, 2005) ISBN 0743284798 ISBN 978-0743284790