James B. Stewart is the author of the national bestsellers Den of Thieves (about Wall Street in the ‘80s), Blood Sport (about the Clinton White House), Blind Eye (an investigation of the medical profession) and Heart of a Soldier (about a Vietnam war hero and head of security for Morgan Stanley who lost his own life on September 11th while saving 2,700 World Trade Center employees under his watch). Stewart’s New York Times bestseller, DisneyWar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, is the dramatic inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war.

An Editor-at-Large of SmartMoney magazine and a contributing editor for SmartMoney.com, Stewart also is a reporter-at-large for The New Yorker. His column, “Common Sense,” appears weekly in The Wall Street Journal and online and monthly in SmartMoney.

While at The Wall Street Journal, Stewart won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his reporting on the stock market crash and insider trading. At The Journal, he covered the Milken and Boesky scandals, the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s, and the world of investment banking and the stock market. He became The Journal’s page one editor in 1988, overseeing coverage of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, the failed Soviet coup, and the presidential elections of both 1988 and 1992. Stewart also is the winner of the 1988 George Polk award and the 1987 and 1988 Gerald Loeb awards. Blind Eye was the winner of the 2000 Edgar Allen Poe Award given annually by the Mystery Writers of America.

Stewart’s other books include The Partners: Inside America’s Most Powerful Law Firms (1983), The Prosecutors: Inside the Offices of the Government’s Most Powerful Lawyers (1987), and Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction (1998). All of his books have been published by Simon & Schuster.

Stewart is a graduate of Harvard Law School and DePauw University. Prior to joining The Journal in 1983, he was Executive Editor of American Lawyer Magazine and was a lawyer with the firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. He was born and attended public schools in Quincy, Illinois. Stewart lectures frequently on values and ethics in American business and politics. He is a member of the New York bar and holds the Bloomberg chair at the Columbia School of Journalism, where he is a professor. He lives in New York City and Shawangunk, N.Y.