Ronald Kessler is the New York Times bestselling author of 12 works of non-fiction, including The Sins of the Father, Inside the CIA, Inside Congress, The Season, and Inside the White House. He began his career as an investigative journalist in 1964 and has since worked for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, winning 16 journalism awards, including two George Polk awards and the Associated Press's Sevellon Brown Memorial Award. He lives with his wife Pamela in Potomac, Maryland.