Richard Reeves, recipient of the 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, is an author and syndicated columnist who has made a number of award-winning documentary films. His ninth book, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, was chosen by Time magazine as the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993. His other best-selling books include Convention and American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America. His twice-weekly column has appeared since 1979 in more than 160 newspapers in the United States, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun.

His book, What the People Know&##133;Freedom and the Press, will be published in the fall of &##145;98 by Harvard University Press. He is a professor at the Annenberg Center for Communications at the University of Southern California and is co-editor of Do the Media Govern?, a journalism textbook published by Sage. He is currently working on a biography of Richard Nixon.

Reeves&##146; other books include Family Travels: Around the World in Thirty Days (1997); The Reagan Detour (1985); Passage to Peshawar (1983); Jet Lag (1981); and A Ford, Not a Lincoln (1975).

A former chief political correspondent of The New York Times, Reeves has been an editor and columnist for New York magazine and Esquire. For six years he wrote a column for Travel & Leisure magazine. He was named the Regents Professor of Political Science at UCLA in 1992. He has taught political writing at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Reeves also has made six television films and has won all of television&##146;s major documentary awards: the Emmy for Lights, Camera&##133;Politics! for ABC News; the Columbia-DuPont Award for Struggle for Birmingham for PBS; and the George Foster Peabody Award for Red Star Over Khyber for PBS.

He is married to Catherine O&##146;Neill, founder of the Women&##146;s Commission for Women and Children Refugees. They have five children and live in Los Angeles and New York.