James Reston Jr.
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James Reston Jr. (1941 - ) is an American author of both fiction and non-fiction literature whose works cover mostly historical and political topics.
[edit] Biography
James Reston is the author of 13 books, three plays, and numerous articles in national magazines. He was awarded the Prix Italia and the Dupont-Columbia Award for his 1983 90-minute radio documentary on National Public Radio, Father Cares: the Last of Jonestown. His last three works, Galileo: A Life, The Last Apocalypse, and Warriors of God, have been translated into ten foreign languages. Warriors of God and Collision at Home Plate have been optioned by Hollywood.
His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The New York Times Magazine, George, Esquire, American Theatre, Playboy, and Rolling Stone.
In recent years he has lectured widely in the United States and overseas on the millennium and the Crusades, citing their relevance to modern issues.
Reston is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. and has been a fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a scholar in residence at the Library of Congress.
Born in New York in 1941, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead Scholarship where he earned his B.A. in philosophy. At UNC he was an All South soccer player and after 42 years still holds the single game scoring record for the university (5 goals against N.C. State, October 18, 1962.) He attended Oxford University during his junior year.
Reston was an assistant to U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall (1964-65) and served in the U.S. Army (1965-68). He was a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina (1971-81).
Reston is married, has three children and lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
[edit] Major Publications
- The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews, 2007
- Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey, 2006
- Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors, 2005
- Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade, 2001
- The Last Apocalypse: Europe in the Year 1000 A.D., 1998
- Galileo: A Life, 1994
- Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti, 1991
- The Lone Star: the Life of John Connally, 1989
- Sherman's March and Vietnam, 1985
- Jonestown Express, a play, 1984
- Our Father Who Art in Hell, The Life and Death of Jim Jones, 1981
- Sherman, the Peacemaker, a play, 1979
- The Innocence of Joan Little, 1977
- The Knock at Midnight, a novel, 1975
- The Amnesty of John David Herndon, 1973
- To Defend, To Destroy, a novel, 1971
