Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Ghost Wars and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington,
D.C. He is a staff writer for
The New Yorker, and previously worked for twenty years at
The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of seven other books, including
On the Grand Trunk Road,
The Bin Ladens,
Private Empire, and
Directorate S.
