Laurie Garrett

Garrett is the kind of journalist I admire most. Winning the 1996 Pulitzer for explanatory reporting on the Ebola outbreak in Zaire, plus a George Polk Award, isn't about glamour, it's about wading into the world's scariest places and translating dense epidemiology into language ordinary people can act on. She was sounding alarms about pandemics long before it was fashionable, and that foresight aged painfully well. I think her real legacy is proving that patient, science-literate reporting can genuinely save lives. The recognition is deserved, but it's the willingness to do unglamorous, vital work that earns my respect.

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Name (English)

Laurie Garrett

Name (Japanese)

ローリー・ギャレット

Reading

ろーりー・ぎゃれっと

Born

1951

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

journalist / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Rabbit

High school

San Marino High School

University

University of California, Santa Cruz

Awards & achievements

• 2000 George Polk Award
• 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

• Official sitehttps://www.lauriegarrett.com
• Xhttps://x.com/Laurie_Garrett
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Garrett
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11351111

Tags

• California
• journalist
• writer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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