Timothy L. O'Brien

Timothy L. O’Brien is a staff writer with The New York
Times. Among the topics and people he has written about for
the paper are Wall Street, Russia, Manhattan's art world,
cybercrimes and identity theft, investing legend Warren
Buffett, online newspapers, terrorism and terrorist
financing, Donald Trump, money laundering, and white-collar
fraud.

Prior to returning to the Times in 2003, Tim was the senior
feature writer at Talk, a monthly magazine founded by Tina
Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Tim was with Talk from 2000 until it ceased publishing in
2002. Before joining Talk, Tim, 43, was a reporter with The
Times and, prior to that, The Wall Street Journal.

Tim has a B.A. cum laude in literature from Georgetown
University, an M.A. in U.S. History from Columbia
University, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University,
and an MBA from Columbia University.

Tim is the author of an upcoming biography of Donald Trump,
TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, which Warner
Books plans to publish on October 26. His previous book,
Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glitz, Glamour, and
Danger of Americaís Gambling Industry, was published in
1998.