Martin's Press along with an award-winning audio book of the same name.Ĭalvi is the recipient of twelve Emmy Awards, including for her breaking-news reportage of the "Miracle on the Hudson", the 2009 emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549. Her novel, Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love is published by St. In March 2002, Calvi joined WCBS - a local broadcast- television station located in New York City, New York, and the flagship station of the CBS broadcast- television network - where she is a news anchor. She then served as news anchor and assistant news director for the News 12 Networks in Westchester, which operates seven regional cable-television news channels in the New York metropolitan area. Career Ĭalvi began her career at a New York radio station as a news anchor and reporter. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in June 1989. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in broadcast journalism from the S. Two years later, she completed a master's degree in European studies at Cambridge University in England.Calvi was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. Kelly graduated from Harvard University in 1993 with degrees in government, French language, and literature. The following year, Kelly moved to London to work as a producer for CNN and as a senior producer, host, and reporter for the BBC World Service. In 1996, she made the leap to broadcasting, joining the team that launched BBC/Public Radio International's The World. In addition to her NPR work, Kelly serves as a contributing editor at The Atlantic, moderating newsmaker interviews at forums from Aspen to Abu Dhabi.Ī Georgia native, Kelly's first job was pounding the streets as a political reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She has lectured at Harvard and Stanford, and taught a course on national security and journalism at Georgetown University. Kelly's writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Washingtonian, The Atlantic, and other publications. Her second novel, The Bullet, followed in 2015. It's a tale of journalists, spies, and Pakistan's nuclear security. Her debut espionage novel, Anonymous Sources, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2013. After one particularly tough trip to Baghdad - so tough she wrote an essay about it for Newsweek - she decided to try trading the spy beat for spy fiction. Kelly first launched NPR's intelligence beat in 2004. Kelly's assignments have found her deep in interviews at the Khyber Pass, at mosques in Hamburg, and in grimy Belfast bars. Her past reporting has tracked the CIA and other spy agencies, terrorism, wars, and rising nuclear powers. That's meant taking All Things Considered to Russia, North Korea, and beyond (including live coverage from Helsinki, for the infamous Trump-Putin summit). Previously, she spent a decade as national security correspondent for NPR News, and she's kept that focus in her role as anchor. Mary Louise Kelly is a co-host of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine.