Doreen Carvajal

Doreen Carvajal is a Paris-based journalist for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times.

Her first book, "The Forgetting River," is about her search to recover her Catholic family's hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in a mystical white pueblo on Spain's southern frontier in Andalusia. It was a journey that began ultimately after her canceled goodbye party on September 11 in New York.

She lives in a stone farmhouse and writes mornings in local cafes in Paris with good wifi connections.