Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (63 page)

Jane Mayer is a staff writer for
The New Yorker
and the author of three best-selling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored
Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988
, with Doyle McManus, and
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
, with Jill Abramson, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of
The New York Times
’s Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Goldsmith Book Prize, the Edward Weintal Prize, the Ridenhour Prize, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For her reporting at
The New Yorker
, Mayer has been awarded the John Chancellor Award, the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Mayer lives in Washington, D.C.