Barbara Demick is an American journalist who is the former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times and soon-to-be Cullman fellow at the New York Public Library. She is famous for writing narrative nonfiction books, in which she uses individual characters to tell complicated and challenging stories. She started her journalism career in Eastern Europe, and wrote Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood, which describes one street’s experience during the siege of Sarajevo