Thomas B. Edsall

Thomas B. Edsall is a senior political reporter at the Washington Post and a frequent contributor to such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Civilization, Harper's, the American Prospect, The Nation, Washington Monthly, and Dissent. His awards include the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association, the Bill Pryor Award of the Newspaper Guild, a year-long fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and five Media Fellowships at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His previous book, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 1992. He lives in Washington, D.C.