Biography

Rosanne Klass was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She received a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin and her M.A. at Hunter College. In the early 1950s she went with her husband to Afghanistan to teach English. In 1964, she published Land of the High Flags about her experiences in Afghanistan and in the sixties she returned to Afghanistan as a journalist. In 1978 she published Afghanistan: The Great Game Revisited. After the Soviet invasion, she helped establish the Afghan Relief Committee which provided humanitarian aid to the country, and she served as vice-president for programs for the Committee from 1980 to 1996. In the 1980s she managed the Afghanistan Information Center at Freedom House, a clearinghouse for human rights information about Afghanistan for the international media.   She has written essays for many publications, including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Asia, and Les Nouvelles d'Afghanistan. She lectures widely in the United States and Europe. Living in New York, Klass edited Spotlight for some time.   In 2007, Land of the High Flags was reissued with the subtitle Afghanistan When the Going Was Good.

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