John A. Farrell is the author of several biographies on U.S. figures, including Richard Nixon: The Life, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2018. His most recent work is Ted Kennedy: A Life, a portrait of the late Massachusetts senator and 1980 presidential candidate.
Farrell is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for The Boston Globe and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post. For his biography of Nixon, he was awarded the title of "American Historian Laureate" by the New York Historical Society.