Steve Coll is President & CEO of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post, serving as the paper’s managing editor from 1998 to 2004.
He is author six books, including The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T (1986); The Taking of Getty Oil (1987); Eagle on the Street, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the SEC’s battle with Wall Street (with David A. Vise, 1991); On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia (1994), Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004); and The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (2008).
Books in order of publication:
The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T. Atheneum. – 1986
The Taking of Getty Oil: The Full Story of the Most Spectacular & Catastrophic Takeover of All Time. Scribner. – 1987
Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Account of the SEC’s Battle with Wall Street. New York: Scribner’s. – 1991
On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia. Crown Press. – 1993
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Penguin. -2004
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. Penguin. – 2008
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. Penguin. – 2012
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016. Penguin Press – 2018
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq. Penguin Press. – 2024
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