John A Farrell

John A. Farrell is the author of Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned , which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, and Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century , which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Rave of the Year. As a longtime journalist at The Boston Globe , he worked as White House correspondent, Washington editor, and investigative reporter on the vaunted Spotlight team. His award-winning portrait of Nixon was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize...See more

John A. Farrell is the author of Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned , which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, and Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century , which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Rave of the Year. As a longtime journalist at The Boston Globe , he worked as White House correspondent, Washington editor, and investigative reporter on the vaunted Spotlight team. His award-winning portrait of Nixon was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography, and earned him the title of American Historian Laureate from the New York Historical Society. See less