Jeff Gerth spent thirty years as an investigative reporter at the New York Times, most of it based in the newspaper’s Washington bureau. His groundbreaking stories include Whitewater in 1992 and Osama bin Laden in 1996, and in 1999 he won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on American technology transfers to China. In 2004, he was a visiting professor at Princeton University. He lives with his wife in Washington, DC, and they have on daughter.