GQ correspondent Robert Draper covers politics for the magazine and has written for the magazine since September 1997. He is the author of the 2007 biography of President George W. Bush entitled Dead Certain: the Presidency of George W. Bush, published by Free Press. He is also the author of Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History and the novel Hadrian's Wall.

Draper’s GQ stories have been republished in Best American Sports Stories 2000, Best American Crime Stories 2001, and Best American Politics Stories 2003. He lives in Washington, DC.