Ann Scott Tyson

'Ann Scott Tyson is an American war correspondent, reporting from combat zones since the invasion of Iraq. She has written for The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post'[1] and contributed to The Wall Street Journal. Tyson is a graduate of Harvard University with an honors degree in government and has studied economics and business at Columbia University.[2]

Year Living in Afghanistan

The BBC reports in June 2014 how...

Washington Post reporter Ann Scott Tyson first spoke with Mr Gant in a 2007 phone interview, after he was awarded a US military top honour, the Silver Star. In 2010, they met face-to-face after she profiled him for the Washington Post, describing him as "the Green Beret who could win the war in Afghanistan".

In 2011 Ms Tyson took a leave of absence from her journalism job and secretly moved to his dangerous combat outpost in Afghanistan, to live with Mr Gant for nearly a year. What started as research for a book project at some point became a romantic relationship.

As Ms Tyson adjusted to life in the field with US Special Forces, Mr Gant learned how to "go native" in Pashtun territory, "by living with, eating with, fighting with and even dying with tribesmen willing to take on the insurgents".[3]

Tyson and Gant have married and live in Seattle, Washington.[4]

Bibliography
  • Chinese Awakenings: Life Stories from the Unofficial China (July 26, 1995) Westview Press ISBN 9780813324739
  • American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant[5] William Morrow (2014) ISBN 9780062114983

References
  1. Ann Scott Tyson C-SPAN
  2. "Ann Scott Tyson". Harper Collins. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  3. "Jim Gant, Ann Scott Tyson and their Afghan Affair". BBC. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  4. "Jim Gant, Ann Scott Tyson and their Afghan Affairwebsite=BBC". Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  5. "In Afghanistan, A U.S. Special Forces Major's Meteoric Rise And Humiliating Fall". Huffington Post. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014.


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