Broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts and author Bette Bao Lord will be the keynote speakers for the fifth annual Utah Women's Conference, hosted by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in the Salt Palace on Friday, Nov. 17.

Registration forms for the conference may be obtained by calling any of Hatch's state offices.Roberts is heard regularly on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," and "Weekend Edition." She is also a special correspondent for ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley" and "Nightline."

Roberts was the first broadcast journalist to win the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress in 1987, and in 1983 she won the Women at Work Broadcast Award.

Roberts is the daughter of the late Rep. Hale Boggs and current Rep. Lindy Boggs, D-La. She is married to New York Times reporter Steve Roberts.

Lord's publication "Spring Moon" was the Literary Guild's Main Selection in 1981. She also won the American Library Association Award for "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson." She was a consultant to CBS News and in 1988 co-produced the Beijing production of "The Caine Mutiny."

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Lord was born in Shanghai, China. She is married to Winston Lord, who was the U.S. ambassador to China from 1985 to 1989. She is working on a book, "Legacies, A Chinese Mosaic," which is scheduled to be published next year.

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