Claudia Cragg, foreign correspondent and author recently came out with a new best-seller, 'The New Maharajahs: The Commercial Princes of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This follows her previous success with 'The New Taipans: A vital Source Book on the People and Business of the Asian-Pacific Rim.', (Random House UK 1995, ISBN 0 7126 61328). She also wrote "Hunting With The Tigers: Doing Business With The Asian Pacific Rim', Pfeiffer, 1993: ISBN: 0-89384-204-4. Some copies of this book are available online from Amazon.com. She is currently working on her next book for Random House UK on Asia. She continues to be a regular contributor to a number of major Japanese, European, and Asian publications on the subject of Asia, its people, places and business. She is also a regular broadcaster on her subject.
Born Claudia MacLeod-Johnstone, she is the daughter of one of Britain's pioneer television anchormen and broadcasters, Kenneth MacLeod (known in the 1950s as "The Golden Boy of Rediffusion', latterly of Westward Television -- Sir Peter Cadbury -- and TV SouthWest) and of Diane Hart. Ms Hart was a veteran actress of numerous well-known films with such stars as David Niven and of many, many West End plays during her continuing career, including the original stage performance of 'The Little Hut' with Robert Morley and David Tomlinson. She also, during the whole of Claudia's formative years, had a seemingly endless run of West End appearances in plays such as 'The Man Most Likely To' and 'Move Over Mrs. Markham' and the odd Oscar Wilde play sandwiched in-between. Claudia herself showed no interest in the theatre, despite spending years and years 'backstage' and the fact that even her grandmother, Marie Link, was a 1920s stage star of the Folies Bergeres in Paris with Miss Tanguett and of many Hippodrome and vaudeville appearances. Marie Link's husband, the author's grandfather, was a 'hoofer' who danced alongside Fred Astaire on many occasions. Claudia has the solid, less ethereal background of an education from, amongst other places, Britain's pre-eminent educational institution:St. Paul's Girls' School, London.
She is represented by: Patrick Walsh at The Conville Walsh Literary Agency in London. She may be reached by email at: journalist@bigfoot.com