Seymour M. Hersh has been a staff writer for The New Yorker and The New York Times.He established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism in 1970 when he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his expose of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam.

Since then he has received the George Polk Award five times, the National Magazine Award for Public Interest twice, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the George Orwell Award, and dozens of other awards.