From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958 in Washington, DC) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer. Coll is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker. Coll served as managing editor to the Washington Post from 1998 to 2004 and as associate editor from late 2004 to August 2005.

Coll graduated from Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland in 1976. He moved to the west coast, attending Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1980 with majors in English and History.

He is the writer of numerous books, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Coll also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for explanatory journalism for his coverage of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Coll's career as a journalist began at California magazine, where he eventually became a contributing editor. Coll started working for the Post as a general assignment feature writer in 1985 for the paper's Style section, quickly moving up to become a New York stationed financial correspondent in 1987. He subsequently moved to New Delhi in 1989, becoming the Post's South Asia bureau chief. From 1995-1998, he worked for the Washington Post Magazine, serving as publisher beginning in 1996.

• The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T (1986) ISBN 0-689-11757-4
• Eagle on the Street (1992) ISBN 0-02-008162-6
• On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia (1993) ISBN 0-8129-2026-0
• The Taking of Getty Oil: The Full Story of the Most Spectacular & Catastrophic Takeover of All Time (1989) ISBN 0-04-440330-5
• Ghost Wars : The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004) ISBN 1-59420-007-6

• Steve Coll discusses, Ghost Wars, at the Carnegie Council