Elizabeth Anne Vargas (born September 6, 1962) is an American TV writer who is the lead insightful correspondent/narrative anchor for A&E Networks. She started her new situation on May 28, 2018, subsequent to being an anchor of ABC's TV newsmagazine 20/20 and ABC News specials for as far back as 14 years. She was already an anchor of World News Tonight. 

Elizabeth Anne Vargas was conceived in Paterson, New Jersey, the girl of an Italian-Spanish dad, Rafael "Ralf" Vargas, a colonel in the U.S. Armed force from Puerto Rico, and an Irish-German-Swedish mother, Anne Vargas, low maintenance English educator. She has two kin, Amy and Christopher, who both work in tech in Silicon Valley. 

Her dad was a U.S. armed force commander and moved the family to Okinawa when she was four years of age. Vargas at that point spent a lot of her childhood moving from post to post in Germany, Belgium, and the United States. Vargas moved on from an American secondary school in Heidelberg, where she understood her energy for news-casting. 

Vargas selected at the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1980 and graduated with a four year college education in news-casting in 1984, having filled in as an understudy journalist at KOMU-TV and an understudy proofreader at KBIA. 

Previous guides commended her competency in her news-casting take a shot at grounds; Rod Gelatt, previous KOMU news chief, noticed that she was the principal understudy to actually fill-in for him as arbitrator of the station's "Missouri Forum" public issues program and Kent Collins, executive of the college's news coverage workforce, recollected her forceful and vigorous hard working attitude. 

Vargas has clarified that in spite of her multi-ethnic legacy, she all the more intently relates to her Hispanic roots, and is conversant in English and Spanish and capable in French. 

On July 20, 2002, Vargas wedded artist musician Marc Cohn following three years of dating. They have two children, Zach and Sam. Vargas additionally has two stepchildren, Max and Emily, from Cohn's first marriage. In August 2014, Entertainment Tonight announced that Vargas and Cohn were separating following 12 years of marriage. 

Vargas was acquainted with Transcendental Meditation in 2014 by individual ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos. 

Vargas' fight with liquor originated from her tension established in her youth in the wake of seeing her dad join the Vietnam War and in this manner enduring day by day alarm assaults; her nervousness just escalated for an incredible duration after she was told at an early stage that it would be to her greatest advantage to shroud her uneasiness to abstain from seeming powerless. 

Her battle finished during a family excursion in 2012 when she understood she required assistance, yet subsequent to looking for treatment in Utah, she in the long run backslid in the wake of withdrawing treatment rashly. On November 6, 2013, ABC affirmed a New York Daily News story that Vargas was going through treatment for liquor abuse. "I am managing compulsion," Vargas said. After her second recovery confirmation, on January 24, 2014, Vargas depicted herself as a drunkard. 

In 2016, Vargas kept in touch with her diary Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction. It was distributed by Grand Central Publishing on September 13 and turned into a moment The New York Times and USA Today hit.