Donna Foote is a former Newsweek correspondent who has covered many of the major stories of our times. While based in London, she reported on political and cultural affairs in the U.K., the war in Northern Ireland, Princess Diana and the British Royal Family, the War in Afghanistan, and Pakistani politics under Benazir Bhutto. As Deputy Bureau Chief of Newsweek’s Los Angeles Bureau, she covered the Rodney King riots, and both OJ Simpson trials. She also wrote extensively on education. She lives in Manhattan Beach, California, with her husband, James Shalvoy, and her fourteen-year-old son, James.