Award winning CNN correspondent and anchor for CNN news Kitty Pilgrim traveled to the farthest reaches of the world on assignment. Now, after 24 years as a broadcast journalist, Kitty has taken on an exciting new assignment - writing novels. Pilgrim is the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award, a Peabody Award, New York Society of Black Journalists Award, and is currently on the U.S. advisory board of Reporters Without Borders, is a full member of the historic Explorer's Club. She is a single mother of two sons and lives in New York City and Rhinecliff, New York.