Steve Coll is most recently the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Ghost Wars. He is the president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for the New Yorker. Previously he worked for twenty years at the Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990, traveled widely as a foreign correspondent, and served as the Post’s managing editor between 1998 and 2004. He is the author of five other books, including On the Grand Trunk Road and The Taking of Getty Oil.