John Aloysius Farrell
John Aloysius Farrell is an American author and biographer of the late House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill and the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow. He is a contributing editor and correspondent to The Atlantic and to National Journal magazine; a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for The Boston Globe and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post. He is now at work on a biography of Richard Nixon for Random House.
Life
Born in Huntington, New York, Farrell graduated from the University of Virginia in 1975 before working at newspapers in Montgomery County, Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland. He was part of a team that won a George Polk award at The Denver Post, and he has received the Gerald Ford and Aldo Beckman prizes for his White House coverage, and the Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting while at The Boston Globe. His book on Tip O'Neill won the D.B. Hardeman Prize from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum for the year's best book on Congress.
Farrell won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography) for Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned.
Excerpts of his work have been published in Jack Beatty's collection Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan, and in Leadership for the Public Service by Richard A. Loverd. Farrell was a contributor, as well, to The Boston Globe's 2004 biography of U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry.
Farrell is an on-camera commentator in the PBS "American Experience" documentary Jimmy Carter, and the television series The Irish in America.
Footnotes
Works
- Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century. Little, Brown, 2001.
- Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned. Scribe Publications, 2011.
External links
- Read about John A. Farrell personal website
- Chapter from Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century, www.jafarrell.com/
- Excerpt from Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, www.jafarrell.com/
- Appearances on C-SPAN