David Maraniss

Maraniss is a New York Times best-selling author, fellow of the Society of American Historians and visiting distinguished professor at Vanderbilt University. After working for more than 40 years at the Washington Post, where he twice won the Pulitzer Prize, he recently left the newspaper. He has won many other major writing awards, including the George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, the Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Frankfurt eBook Award.