Background
Jacki Lyden was born on October 5, 1954, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. He is the daughter of Dolores Lyden. As a child, Jacki lived in a war zone of a different kind in a small Midwestern town.
1700 Chapel Dr, Valparaiso, IN 46383, United States
Valparaiso University
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Cambridge University
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
University of Chicago
Gracie Award for American Women in Radio and Television
Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Awards for Broadcasting and Journalism
Peabody Award
National Public Radio (logotype)
Weekend All Things Considered (logotype)
Jacki Lyden with her mother and sisters
Jacki Lyden was born on October 5, 1954, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. He is the daughter of Dolores Lyden. As a child, Jacki lived in a war zone of a different kind in a small Midwestern town.
Lyden graduated from the Valparaiso University as a Bachelor of Arts. She also attended the Cambridge University and the University of Chicago.
Lyden began her career as the National Public Radio's reporter in 1979. She worked as a reporter from Chicago Bureau and as the Middle East and European correspondent from London Bureau. In the 1990s and 2000s, she continued to serve as a foreign correspondent for NPR. She became the first NPR's correspondent who reported on the air from New York during the September 11 attacks.
In 2001, Lyden held the position of a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan. Leden also served as a senior correspondent and substitute host of the series Weekend All Things Considered till 2008. For five years from 2009, she continued her career as a contributing host and correspondent temporarily.
Since 2014, Lyden conducts National Public Radio's series on fashion - The Seams. In 2017, she created “Love Comes in at the Eye,” an annual workshop for memoir and first-person writers and podcasters in Renvyle, Ireland.
Concerning her writing career, Lyden published her critically-acclaimed memoir Daughter of the Queen of Sheba in 1997. The book chronicles her life growing up in the presence of her mother’s mental illness - manic depression. This memoir of a mother-daughter relationship is a testimony to obstinate devotion in the face of bewildering illness. Additionally, Lyden is the author of the book Landmarks and Legends of Uptown and a contributor to numerous magazines.
Quotations: "I was born a person who would go to the ends of the earth for a story."
Quotes from others about the person
"Lyden’s lucid, powerful prose makes her psychic drama real and vivid." - Newsday
"Lyden captures her mother’s insanity and her own response to it in exquisite detail. The writing—vivid, original, lyrical—shines at its most haunting, when Lyden homes in on her mother’s behavior, which is so bold and fantastical at times that it borders on the hilarious." - The New York Times Book Review
Jacki is married to Bill O’Leary.