George Lardner Jr. was a reporter for more than 40 years at the Washington Post where he also did brief stints as a columnist and editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1993 for articles on the murder of his youngest daughter, Kristin. He covered most of the beats in Washington, from Congress and the White House, to the CIA and the FBI, but spent most of his time as an investigative reporter. He was chairman of the Fund for Investigative Journalism for about 10 years and remains on its board. He is now an associate at the Center for the Study of the Presidency, working on a history of the presidential pardon power. He is also an occasional op-ed page contributor to the New York Times and the Washington Post.