Elizabeth Becker (born October 28, 1947) is an American journalist and author. She has written five books and is best known for her reporting and writing on Cambodia.
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Biography
Elizabeth Becker graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in South Asian Studies and studied language at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan in Agra, India. She was an Edelman fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Her papers on Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge are held at The University of Washington Southeast Asia Library as the Elizabeth Becker collection.
Becker is the mother of two adult children, Lily and Lee Hoagland. She is married to William L. Nash and lives in Washington, D.C.
Career
Becker began her career reporting from Cambodia during the Vietnam War for the Washington Post as a local stringer. She joined the newspaper’s staff in Washington. She was the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio where she received two DuPont Columbia awards as executive producer for reporting South Africa's first democratic elections and the Rwandan genocide.