Ted Gup, a former staff writer for the Washington Post and Time magazine, is the author of Nation of Secrets: The Threat To Democracy And The American Way Of Life, (Doubleday, June 2007) and The Book of Honor: Covert Lives And Classified Deaths At The CIA, (Doubleday, 2000, Anchor Paperback 2001) and is the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism at Case Western Reserve University.

He has also written for a wide range of other publications including Smithsonian, National Geographic, the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Slate, GQ, Mother Jones, the Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, and Newsweek. He has been a Pulitzer finalist and the recipient of numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, the Gerald Loeb Award, and the Book-of-the-Year Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors (for The Book of Honor). He has been a Fulbright Scholar to China (1985-1986), a grantee of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a Fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. He and his wife, Peggy, and their sons, David and Matthew, live in Pepper Pike, Ohio, and Bucksport, Maine. You can contact Ted Gup by clicking here.

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