Garrett M. Graff

Bestselling historian, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff has spent two decades covering politics, technology, and national security. His award-winning work-including magazine articles, podcasts, documentaries, and books on topics ranging from presidential history to the Cold War to cybersecurity and chronicle seminal turning points like Watergate, 9/11, and D-Day-uses history to explain the story of today, illuminating where we've been as a country and where we're headed as a world.

Today, he's a columnist for the Washington Post, where he writes on leadership, serves as the director of cyber initiatives at the Aspen Institute, and hosts the award-winning history podcast, Long Shadow. The former editor of POLITICO Magazine and a longtime contributor to WIRED and CNN, he's written for publications like Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Foreign Affairs, and is the author of nine books-including the #1 national bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, told in the voices of nearly 500 Americans as they experienced that tragic day, and which won audiobook of the year and which the Wall Street Journal called "a priceless civic gift."

His other bestselling books include Raven Rock, about the government's Cold War Doomsday plans, and Watergate: A New History, which was a finalist in 2023 for the Pulitzer Prize in History and which Douglas Brinkley called "dazzling," as well as, most recently, UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here-and Out There and When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day.