About the Author
Timothy L. O’Brien is an award-winning author and journalist with more than 20 years of experience at leading media enterprises, including Bloomberg LP, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and HuffPost.
He’s currently the executive editor of Bloomberg LP’s two premier public policy, politics and business commentary platforms: View and Gadfly. O’Brien edited a series on wounded war veterans that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. He’s also the recipient of a 1999 Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and is the author of three books. He was a reporter and a senior editor at The New York Times, where he oversaw the Sunday Business section and helped lead a team of reporters that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Public Service for a series of articles about the 2008 financial crisis. The same series received a Loeb Award in 2009.
O’Brien is the author of two non-fiction books — TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald and Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz and Danger of America’s Gambling Industry. He is also the author of an historical novel, The Lincoln Conspiracy. Donald Trump sued O’Brien for libel in 2006. Trump lost.