James B. Stewart

James B. Stewart is the author of the national bestsellers Den of Thieves, about Wall Street in the '80s, Blood Sport, about the Clinton White House and Blind Eye, an investigation of the medical profession. Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction, was published in 1998.

He is currently Editor-at-Large of Smart Money magazine, a contributing editor for SmartMoney.com, a reporter-at-large for The New Yorker, and a former page-one editor of The Wall Street Journal.

While at The Wall Street Journal, Stewart won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his reporting on the stock market crash and insider trading. As a reporter at The Journal, he covered the Milken and Boesky scandals, the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s and the world of investment banking and the stock market. Stewart became The Journal's page one editor in 1988, overseeing coverage of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, the failed Soviet coup, and the presidential elections of both 1988 and 1992. He is also the winner of the 1988 George Polk award and the 1987 and 1988 Gerald Loeb awards. Blind Eye was the winner of the 2000 Edgar Allen Poe Award given annually by the Mystery Writers of America.