Carol J. Williams is a retired foreign correspondent who covered the historic upheaval that ended the Cold War in an award-winning, 35-year career with Associated Press and Los Angeles Times.
She chronicled the USSR’s brief era of hope for reform and the tragic consequences of its failure. She followed Eastern Europe’s euphoric rebellions that toppled Communist tyrants from Berlin to Bucharest. In Yugoslavia, she documented the rise of ethnic and religious nationalism fanned by corrupt leaders who pushed their people into devastating wars. Her dispatches from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine traced those conflicts to unresolved disputes from their days of imperial oppression.
Carol Williams interviewing Mikhail Gorbachev.
THE IRON CURTAIN CHRONICLES is a fictionalized trilogy recounting historical events of the last decade of the Cold War, told through the work of a young news agency correspondent.
Join us as Carol discusses her book, Dispatches from Moscow: Spies and Lies, with Interviewer, Melody Sky Weaver, Librarian and Community Services Director, City of Port Townsend.
Carol J. Williams is a graduate of the University of Washington and holds a journalist law certificate from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She lives with her husband Ken Olsen, a retired editor, in Silverdale, WA.