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E. MacFarquhar, political writer By Globe Staff, 4/21/2001
Mrs. MacFarquhar died of a brain tumor March 18 in her home in Cambridge. She was 62. She was born in New York City, graduated from Wellesley College, and earned a master's degree in East Asian studies at Harvard University. Mrs. MacFarquhar wrote for The Economist for 20 years and became the journal's East Asian editor in 1983. She lived in London and was a political analyst and reporter on the British TV show ''A Week in Politics'' in 1982 and 1983. After returning to the US in 1984, she joined US News & World Report, where she was foreign editor in the late 1980s and a contributing editor in the early '90s. In 1998, she was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant to study Benazir Bhutto's rise to power in Pakistan, but she was unable to complete the project because of illness. She leaves her husband, Roderick; a daughter, Larissa of New York City; and a son, Rory of Cambridge. The memorial gathering will be at 2 p.m. on April 28 in Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College. This story ran on page 7 of the Boston Globe on 4/21/2001. |
memorial gathering will be held on April 28 for Emily Jane (Cohen) MacFarquhar, an expert on the politics of China and the Far East who was foreign editor of US News & World Report.