Jack Cheevers

Jack Cheevers is the author of "Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo," winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. He worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for 27 years, including stints at the Los Angeles Times, Oakland Tribune, and Associated Press and United Press International bureaus in San Francisco. His writing has been published by The New York Times, Politico magazine, Mother Jones magazine, San Francisco magazine, Reader's Digest, Responsible Statecraft, Naval History magazine, Boston Globe, and many other newspapers. He has spoken before the Marines' Memorial Club of San Francisco, Naval Order of the United States, Bohemian Club of San Francisco, Military Officers Association of America, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and other groups. A Massachusetts native, he is a proud graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He lives on a pond in New Hampshire with his rescue dog, Lupe.