Biographer Ann Blackman's fourth book, Off to Save the World: How Julia Taft Made a Difference, was published in November 2011 by Maine Authors Publishing. Her earlier works include Seasons of Her Life: a Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1998); The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, (co-author) about the FBI agent who spied for the Russians, (Little Brown, 2002), and Wild Rose, Civil War Spy, A True Story, a biography of Confederate stalwart Rose O’Neale Greenhow (Random House, 2005).
Blackman worked at TIME magazine and The Associated Press, reporting primarily from Washington and, from 1987 to 1990, Moscow. She has appeared on TV and radio shows including A&E Biography, Washington Week in Review, The Diane Rehm Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, CNN, Fox Morning News, The Charlie Rose Show, Book Notes/CSPAN, The Hill, To the Best of Our Knowledge and The Jim Bohannon Show. She lives in Washington, DC, and on the coast of Maine.[1]