David Maraniss is redacteur van The Washington Post. Hij won de Pulitzer Prize voor de beste reportages over leven en werk van Bill Clinton. Van zijn hand verschenen verscheidene internationaal vermaarde bestsellers: When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi (1999); First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton (2000); They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 (2004) en Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss (2010).