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Caryle Murphy Has Died. She Earned a Pulitzer for Reporting in Kuwait.
The New York Times • • world
Key Points:
- Caryle Murphy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist known for her intense coverage of Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, died on October 19 in Fairfax County, Virginia, at age 79.
- Her death was caused by viral pneumonia; she had previously been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and underwent a lung transplant in 2018.
- Murphy was The Washington Post’s Cairo bureau chief in July 1990 and, despite a mysterious illness, traveled to Kuwait to report on the impending Iraqi invasion.
- She was one of the few American journalists present in Kuwait when Iraqi tanks entered, ultimately escaping to Saudi Arabia as Saddam Hussein’s forces advanced.
