Brian Duffy was a reporter for The Miami Herald, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, editor of U.S. News & World Report and managing editor for news at National Public Radio. In Washington he covered the FBI and the CIA. Duffy shared newspaper bylines with Bob Woodward and Carl Hiaasen, and knew and/or interviewed many famous people, from Muhammad Ali to James Comey to Madeleine Albright. As a journalist he traveled to Haiti, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Mozambique and elsewhere. He is the author of a novel, Head Count, and co-author of four nonfiction books. Duffy has received numerous professional awards, among them the Harvard University Goldsmith Award for Investigative Journalism, the Overseas Press Club Award (three times), the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Reporting, the National Headliner Award, and the Heywood Broun Award. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee.