Printable Biography of Robert Woodward

Washington Post where he has worked since 1971.  He has won nearly every American journalism prize.  In 1973, The Washington Post received The Pulitzer Prize for the reporting of Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. In addition, in 2002, the Post received the National Affairs Pulitzer Prize for Woodward's articles on the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Woodward won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 2003. The Weekly Standard called Woodward "the best pure reporter of his generation, perhaps ever." In 2003, Albert Hunt of The Wall Street Journal called Woodward "the most celebrated journalist of our age."              

Mr. Woodward has authored or co-authored more number one national best-selling non-fiction than any other contemporary American writer. His nine number one national bestsellers include: All the Presidents Men (1974) and The Final Days (1976), both Watergate books co-authored with Bernstein, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court (1979), co-authored with Scott Armstrong, Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi (1984), Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (1987), The Commanders (1991), The Agenda:  Inside the Clinton White House  (June 1994), Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (1999), and Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (2000).                                

 Bob Woodward's most recent works include,  State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (2006),  Bush at War (2002) and Plan of Attack (2004). State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III reveals information about the Bush administration and the War in Iraq that examines how the Bush administration managed Iraq after the 2003 invasion. Bush at War focuses on the three months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during which the U.S. prepared for war in Afghanistan, took steps toward a preemptive strike against Iraq, intensified homeland defense, and began a well-funded CIA covert war against terrorism around the world. Plan of Attack is a behind-the-scenes look at how the Bush Administration dealt with the causes and consequences of the war in Iraq, the most controversial war since Vietnam.                  

His book, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (July 2005), chronicles Woodward's relationship with the infamous "Deep Throat" source, Mark Felt, who leaked the information that brought the Watergate Scandal to light and ended Richard Nixon's presidency.                  

Mr. Woodward continues to write and edit for The Washington Post. Newsweek magazine has excerpted five of his books in headline-making cover stories, 60 Minutes has featured three of his books, and Dateline four of them. Three of his books have been made into movies. On February 7, 1992, The New York Times said, "Bob Woodward is the most famous investigative reporter in America."

Mr. Woodward was born March 26, 1943 in Illinois. He graduated from Yale University in 1965 and served five years as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy before beginning his reporting career at the Montgomery County Sentinel (Maryland), where he reported for one year before joining The Washington Post.  He currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife Elsa Walsh, an author and writer for The New Yorker. Woodward has two daughters. Tali, whom he had with his first wife, is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and works for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. His second, Diana, was born in August 1996.