Bio
Carole Radziwill is an American journalist and author best known for starring in the docu-reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City.
Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Carole Radziwill grew up in upstate New York. She moved to New York City at age 18 to attend college, earning a Bachelor of Arts at Hunter College and a Masters degree at New York University.
In 1988 she landed a life-changing internship at ABC News. It was the start of a long and rewarding career. Carole's work with Peter Jennings' documentary unit and the news magazine shows PrimeTime Live and 20/20 garnered her three Emmys, a Robert F. Kennedy Humanitarian award, and a GLADD award.
Carole has traveled all over the world for her work, reporting on hard-hitting stories from places like Cambodia, India, and the Middle East.
She was stationed in Israel in 1991, to cover the first Gulf War. And in 2001, during the Afghanistan War, she spent a month documenting the 101st Airborne Division in Khandahar for the ABC docu-series Profiles From the Front Line.
In 2003 Carole left ABC News to write her first book, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love. It is a moving account of her life, her marriage to fellow ABC News producer Anthony Radziwill, and their heartbreaking battle with cancer.
What Remains spent over 12 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List and was nominated for the "Books for a Better Life" award.
Carole is a frequent contributor to Glamour magazine and her first novel, The Widow's Guide to Sex & Dating, was published in summer 2012.