Ted Gup is the author of the best seller
The Book of Honor,
winner of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Book-of-the-Year Award, and
Nation of Secrets,
winner of the Shorenstein Book Prize. A Pulitzer finalist and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is professor and chair of the Journalism Department at Emerson College. A former investigative reporter for
The Washington Post
and
Time
magazine, he has taught at Case Western Reserve University, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing as a Fulbright scholar. He has written for publications such as
Smithsonian, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Village Voice, Sports Illustrated, Slate, GQ, Mother Jones, Audubon, Columbia Journalism Review,
and
Newsweek,
and for NPR
.