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About the Author
David A. Vise is a Pulitzer-Prize winning
reporter for The Washington Post who covers the FBI and the Justice Department. A 1982
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he has an MBA from the Wharton School and an
Honorary Doctorate of Literary Letters from Cumberland University. A former Wall Street
investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Vise also studied at the London School of
Economics.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, David started in journalism at The Tennessean, first as a copyboy and later as an intern reporter. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards. In addition to winning the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for a four-part Washington Post series, "The Man from Wall Street: John Shad's Reign at the SEC," he received the 1990 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, the 1992 Distinguished Alumnus Award from University School of Nashville, and numerous awards from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association for coverage of the nation's capital city and other groundbreaking journalism. He is the coauthor of Eagle on the Street, a book about the Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall Street's insider trading scandal in the 1980s. He is currently working on a movie based on The Bureau and the Mole, in development from Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney's Touchstone Pictures. |
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