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Tim O'Brien is an editor at The New York Times, where he oversees the Sunday Business section. Tim is also writing a series of mystery novels for Random House that are set between the Civil War and World War I.

Tim helped oversee a team of Times reporters who were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for their coverage of the financial crisis in 2008.

You can follow Tim on Twitter and on Facebook. His professional network is available on LinkedIn.

Prior to becoming Sunday Business editor in 2006, Tim was a staff writer with the Times. Among the topics and people he has written about for the paper are Wall Street, Russia, Manhattan's art world, cybercrimes and identity theft, Warren Buffett, geopolitics, international finance, digital media, Hollywood, terrorism and terrorist financing, Donald Trump, money laundering, gambling and white-collar fraud.

Tim has a B.A. cum laude in literature from Georgetown University, an M.A. in U.S. History from Columbia University, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and an MBA from Columbia University. He has lived and worked in Europe, South America and Asia.

Tim is the author of a biography of Donald Trump, "TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald," which Warner Books published in 2005. His previous non-fiction book, "Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry," was published in 1998.



TrumpNation

Funny money, anyone? Find out the true story behind the Art of Being the Donald and visit the over-the-top worlds Trump inhabits.

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