Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Caryle Murphy Dies at 79 After Viral Pneumonia

3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 25

Caryle Murphy died Oct. 19 in Fairfax County, Virginia, at 79; her husband said the cause was viral pneumonia.
Murphy won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post reporting during Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, filing a month of dispatches from Kuwait City before escaping Saddam Hussein’s forces to Saudi Arabia.
David Ignatius, then The Post’s foreign editor, recalled sending her from Cairo to Kuwait despite an illness that left her struggling to stay awake, making her one of the few American correspondents there when Iraqi tanks entered.
Her coverage captured burned-out military vehicles, besieged embassies, the collapse of civil administration and early Kuwaiti resistance, work that defined her legacy in foreign reporting.
Murphy had been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2015 and received a lung transplant three years later.