Tom Shroder has been an award-winning journalist, writer and editor for more than 30 years. As editor of The Washington Post Magazine, he conceived and edited the story, Fatal Distraction, which was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He also edited  and contributed to Pearls Before Breakfast, which was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. In addition to being an author and editor of narrative journalism, Shroder is one of the foremost editors of humor in the country. He has edited humor columns by Dave Barry, Gene Weingarten and Tony Kornheiser, as well as conceived and launched the internationally syndicated comic strip, Cul de Sac, by Richard Thompson. His latest book, written with former oil rig captain John Konrad, is “Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster.” It was singled out among all the Gulf oil disaster books by the LA Times, which said it “marries a John McPhee feel for the technology to a Jon Krakauer sense of an adventure turned tragic.” His most recent editing project,  Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, by Dana Priest and Bill Arkin, was a New York Times Bestseller. 

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