is the author or editor of 22 books, including "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," which won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award; "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb," which was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize for history; "Why They Kill," an investigation of the roots of private violencel; "A Hole in the World," a personal memoir; a biography on John James Audubon; and four novels. He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series. An affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, he lectures frequently to audiences in the United States and abroad. His third volume of nuclear history, "Endgame: The Unmaking of the Nuclear Arms Race," which examines the international politics of nuclear weapons in the last years of the Cold War, will be published in fall 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf. He lives with his wife, Ginger, a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, near Half Moon Bay, Calif.
