She carved her own identity with strong appetites for partying, drinking, sailing, and loving, which endured her entire lifetime. Coming of age in the 1970s, Marie tuned into the countercultural tendencies of the times. There, she made lifelong friends and published her first piece in a campus journal. Hilsum's narrative is punctuated with excerpts from Covin's dispatches while on assignment for The Sunday Times.īorn in 1956, Colvin grew up in New York, spent a year as a high school exchange student in Brazil, then became one of the first wave of women admitted to undergraduate studies at Yale. She had access to Colvin's personal journals and interviewed Colvin's numerous friends, colleagues, editors, former husbands and lovers, and family members. Hilsum writes with clarity and precise attention to details. It's only fitting that another journalist, Lindsey Hilsum, honors Colvin with this fascinating, detailed, 400-page biography. As readers, we know that her story will end tragically, yet Marie Colvin's heroic journey from the beginning of her life still provides page-turning suspense. Colvin was killed in action reporting from Homs, Syria in 2012. Widely acknowledged as one of her generation's top journalists, she reported from some of the toughest conflict zones on the planet.

International journalist Marie Colvin pushed the limits in her work and her personal life. The biography of Marie Colvin, one of the greatest war reporters of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012.

In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum