Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post correspondent
Caryle Murphy was an American journalist who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for her coverage of Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait for The Washington Post. She later wrote books on Islam and Saudi Arabia. She died on 19 October 2026, aged 79.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, on 16 November 1946, she also reported from Cairo and later worked for the Pew Research Center.
Published 25 October 2026
Caryle Murphy, Pulitzer-winning Washington Post reporter in occupied Kuwait, dies at 79
Murphy stayed in Kuwait after Iraq's 1990 invasion and smuggled her reports out, winning the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Her husband said she died of pulmonary fibrosis.
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