Anne-Marie O’Connor is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller THE LADY IN GOLD, the true story that inspired the feature film Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. She is a veteran journalist and war correspondent who has reported for The Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and other media. Her story on Maria Altmann’s effort to recover her artwork appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine in 2001. O’Connor attended Vassar and the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where she and fellow students co-created an award-winning documentary on the repression of artists after the 1973 military coup in Chile. She lives in London.