Jacki Lyden (born 1953 or 1954[1]) is an American journalist and author of the memoir, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (1999).
[3] Lyden, then living in Brooklyn, was NPR's first correspondent on the air from New York during the September 11 attacks and reported from "Ground Zero".
She and the late John McChesney produced "Anatomy of a Shooting" in 2006, about the accidental killing of her Iraqi translator, Yasser Salihee, by an American soldier.
Together with poet and memoirist Nick Flynn she was the keynote speaker for Hippocamp 2019, a conference for nonfiction writers held annually through Hippocampus Magazine.
Kakutani called her writing "deft, luminous prose" and described the book as "both a reporter's unsentimental act of recollection and a love letter to an impossible and captivating woman.
[3] She divides her time between the Washington DC area (Silver Spring, MD), Brooklyn, New York, and Delafield, Wisconsin.