A. L. Bardach is the author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and the acclaimed Cuba Confidential. She is a Daily Beast/Newsweek Global wrier-at-large, a PEN/USA award winning reporter and author. She was a member of the Brookings Institution Cuba Study Project and a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair for a decade and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic et al. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, Good Morning America, CNN, NPR, Charlie Rose and many  other programs.