Jane Mayer is the co-author of two bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books, LANDSLIDE: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1984-1988, and STRANGE JUSTICE: THE SELLING OF CLARENCE THOMAS, the latter of which was a finalist for the National
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Jane Mayer is the co-author of two bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books, LANDSLIDE: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1984-1988, and STRANGE JUSTICE: THE SELLING OF CLARENCE THOMAS, the latter of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Mayer was also awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in connection with THE DARK SIDE.
She is currently a Washington-based staff writer for
The New Yorker, specializing in political and investigative reporting. Before that, she was a senior writer and front-page editor for
The Wall Street Journal, as well as the
Journal's first female White House correspondent.
She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her husband, Bill, and their daughter, Kate.