James Reston

Winner of Prix Italia and the Dupont-Columbia Award for his radio documentary on National Public Radio, "Father Cares: the Last of Jonestown." His last four works, Galileo: A Life, The Last Apocalypse, Warriors of God, and Dogs of God have been translated into twelve foreign languages. Warriors of God and Collision at Home Plate have been optioned by Hollywood.

His most recent book, Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey, is a heart-wrenching saga of his daughter’s disability, and makes the case for the value of every life.

His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The New York Times Magazine, George, Esquire, American Theatre, Playboy, and Rolling Stone.

In recent years he has lectured widely in the United States and overseas on the millennium, the crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition citing their relevance to modern issues.

He has been a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, a scholar in residence at the Library of Congress, and is currently a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.

Reston was an assistant to US Secretary of the Interior, Steward Udall, was in the US Army, a Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of North Carolina, and also was aNewsweek, PBS, and BBC candidate to be the first writer on the NASA space shuttle.

Reston attended the University of North Carolina on a Morehead Scholarship where he earned his B.A. in philosophy. He also attended Oxford University for his junior year.