About the Author
Timothy L. O’Brien is the executive editor of the Huffington Post, where he edited the 2012 Pulitzer Prize–winning series about severely wounded war veterans, “Beyond the Battlefield.” Previously, he was an editor and reporter at The New York Times. There, he helped to lead a team of Times reporters that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service in 2009 for coverage of the financial crisis. The Times series that emerged from that work, “The Reckoning,” was also a winner of a Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism. O’Brien lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and two children.