Bob Woodward

Acclaimed Journalist and Author

Bob Woodward is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award. The Pulitzer Prize was given to the Post in 1973 for the reporting of Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. In addition, Woodward was the lead reporter for the Post's articles on the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks that won the National Affairs Pulitzer Prize in 2002.

Woodward's latest book The Secret Man (July 2005) reveals long awaited answers behind "Deep Throat", the source who uncovered Watergate during Nixons presidency.

Woodward has co-authored or authored more #1 national best-selling nonfiction books than any contemporary American writer: His ten #1 national bestsellers are:

• All the President's 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) on the first Bush administration and the Gulf War
• The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (1994)
• Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (1999)
• Bush at War (2002) on the second Bush administration and the war on terror
• Plan of Attack (2004) on the decision to invade Iraq

Woodward's other two books, The Choice (1996) on the presidential election, and Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (2000), were national bestsellers for months.

Newsweek magazine has excerpted five of Woodward's books in headline-making cover stories; 60 Minutes has done pieces on five of his books and Dateline on four of them; three of his books have been made into movies.

In 1992, The New York Times said, "Bob Woodward is the most famous investigative reporter in America."

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 journalism career at the Montgomery County (Maryland) Sentinel, where he was a reporter for one year before joining the Post. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Elsa Walsh, an author and writer for The New Yorker. He has two daughters, Tali and Diana.