Richard Kluger

Richard Kluger, a native of Paterson, N.J., and Princeton graduate, grew up in Manhattan, where he worked for The Wall Street Journal, the (pre-Murdoch) New York Post, and the New York Herald Tribune, on which he served as the last literary editor. Entering book-publishing, he be-came executive editor of Simon and Schuster, editor-in-chief of Atheneum, and publisher of his own imprint, Charterhouse Books, before turning to writing books. Simple Justice, his acclaimed account of the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark Brown decision outlawing school segregation, and The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune, both finalists for the National Book Award in history, were followed by Ashes to Ashes, an anatomy of the cigarette industry, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. His most recent book was Indelible Ink, about the birth of America's free press. Kluger is the author of six previous novels, among them Members of the Tribe and The Sheriff of Nottingham. He and his wife Phyllis have two sons and six grandsons and live near San Francisco.