Clay Risen

Clay Risen, a reporter and editor at The New York Times , is the author of The Crowded Hour , a New York Times Notable Book of 2019 and a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History. He is a member of the Society of American Historians and a fellow at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of two other acclaimed books on American history, A Nation on Fire and The Bill of the Century , as well as his most recent book on McCarthyism, Red Scare...See more

Clay Risen, a reporter and editor at The New York Times , is the author of The Crowded Hour , a New York Times Notable Book of 2019 and a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History. He is a member of the Society of American Historians and a fellow at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of two other acclaimed books on American history, A Nation on Fire and The Bill of the Century , as well as his most recent book on McCarthyism, Red Scare . He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two young children. See less