Lara Marlowe was born in California and studied French at UCLA and the Sorbonne, then International Relations at Oxford. She started her career as an associate producer with CBS’s 60 Minutes programme, then moved to print media with the Financial Times and TIME magazine. She was a staff foreign correspondent, based in Paris and Washington, for The Irish Times from 1996 until 2023.

Marlowe has reported on more than a dozen wars and has won four press awards. She completed five long reporting stints in Ukraine between 2022 and 2026 and continues to write a column for The Irish Times.

Marlowe makes her permanent home in Paris, where she has covered the political terms of five French presidents. She became a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2006 for her contribution to Franco-Irish relations.

Marlowe is the author of How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine (2024), Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk (2021), Painted with Words (2011) and The Things I’ve Seen: Nine Lives of a Foreign Correspondent (2010).