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Mary Louise Kelly

Co-Host of NPR's "All Things Considered" & Author

Mary Louise Kelly
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Mary Louise Kelly Biography

Mary Louise Kelly is a co-host of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine. She assumed the role in January 2018.

Previously, she was a national security correspondent for NPR News. Her reporting tracked the CIA and other spy agencies, terrorism, wars, and rising nuclear powers. As part of the national security team, she traveled extensively to investigate foreign policy and military issues. Kelly's assignments took her from the Khyber Pass to mosques in Hamburg, and from grimy Belfast bars to the deserts of Iraq. Her first assignment at NPR was senior editor of the award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, All Things Considered.

Kelly first launched NPR's intelligence beat in 2004. After one particularly tough trip to Baghdad — so tough she wrote an essay about it for Newsweek — she decided to try trading the spy beat for spy fiction. Her debut espionage novel, Anonymous Sources, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2013. It's a tale of journalists, spies, and Pakistan's nuclear security. Her second novel, The Bullet, followed in 2015.

During her spell away from full-time reporting, Kelly's writing appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, Washingtonian, The Atlantic, and other publications. She also launched and taught a course on national security and journalism at Georgetown University. And she joined The Atlantic as a contributing editor. She continues to hold that role, moderating newsmaker interviews at forums from Aspen to Abu Dhabi.

A Georgia native, Kelly's first job was pounding the streets as a local political reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 1996, she made the leap to broadcasting, joining the team that launched Public Radio International's The World. Kelly graduated from Harvard University in 1993 with degrees in government and French language and literature. Two years later, she completed a master's degree in European Studies at Cambridge University in England.

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Mary Louise Kelly Videos

  • There is Nothing for You Here -Mary Louise Kelly & Fiona Hill
    There is Nothing for You Here -Mary Louise Kelly & Fiona Hill
    There is Nothing for You Here - Fiona Hill in conversation with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
  • Crimson Connections: Mary Louise Kelly '93 and Tracy P. Palandjian ’93
    Crimson Connections: Mary Louise Kelly '93 and Tracy P. Palandjian ’93
    Mary Louise Kelly ’93 and Tracy Palandjian ’93 aren’t in the same profession today, but their lives were intertwined as Harvard undergraduates....
  • Aspen Public Radio and Challenge Aspen Present NPR's Mary Louise Kelly
    Aspen Public Radio and Challenge Aspen Present NPR's Mary Louise Kelly
    Challenge Aspen and Aspen Public Radio are honored to present a free, public virtual event featuring NPR All Things Considered Host Mary Louise...
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Mary Louise Kelly Books

  • It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
    It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
  • Anonymous Sources: A Novel
    Anonymous Sources: A Novel
  • The Bullet: A Novel
    The Bullet: A Novel
  • Anonymous Sources
    Anonymous Sources

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