Michael Ludden is a former Deputy Managing Editor at the Orlando Sentinel, where he directed a year-long investigation that won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Projects he wrote or edited won numerous awards over a 25-year newspaper career.
He's written for magazines, advertising and marketing firms, edited books and been a senior writer/editor at CNN's Headline News.
He grew up in Mountain Lakes, N.J., and has a B.A. in English Literature from Washington College. He and his wife live in Atlanta, where he's working on another Tate Drawdy thriller and likes to sample a Sam Adams Boston Lager when the sun begins to set (or looks like it might, at some point).