| Steve Coll Born: 8-Oct-1958
Birthplace: Washington, DC
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ghost Wars Father: Robert Wilson Coll
Mother: Shirley Lee Baldwin
Wife: Susan Keselenko (m. 1984, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Alexandra
Daughter: Emma
Son: Maxwell
High School: Thomas S. Wootton High School, Rockville, MD (1976)
University: BA English and History, Occidental College (1980)
Administrator: Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (2013-)
New America Foundation Executive Director (2007-12)
The New Yorker Writing Staff (2005-)
The Washington Post Associate Editor (2004-05)
The Washington Post Managing Editor (1998-2004)
The Washington Post Publisher, Sunday Magazine (1996-98)
The Washington Post Foreign Correspondent, London (1992-95)
The Washington Post Foreign Correspondent, South Asia (1989-92)
The Washington Post Financial Correspondent (1987-89)
The Washington Post Writer (1985-86)
Inc. Magazine Contributing Editor (1984-85)
California Magazine Contributing Editor (1983-84)
KCET-TV Los Angeles Reporter (1982-83)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 1990 (with David A. Vise)
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction 2005 for Ghost Wars
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Bhutto (21-Jan-2010) · Himself
American Zeitgeist (16-Jun-2006) · Himself
Author of books:
The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T (1986, corporate history)
The Taking of Getty Oil: The Full Story of the Most Spectacular -- And Catastrophic -- Takeover of All Time (1987, corporate history)
Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Account of the SEC's Battle With Wall Street (1991, economics)
On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia (1993, travelogue)
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004, international affairs)
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (2008, biography)
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (2012, corporate history)
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