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.