Biography

Douglas C. Waller is the congressional correspondent for TIME Magazine. Before joining TIME in 1994, he was a defense and foreign policy correspondent for Newsweek Magazine. Before joining Newsweek in 1988, he spent eight years working in the U.S. Congress, serving as a legislative assistant on the staffs of Representative Edward J. Markey and Senator William Proxmire. Waller began his journalism career with reporting stints at the Greensboro Record and Charlotte News in North Carolina.

Waller is the author or co-author of six previous books, including Big Red: Three Months On Board A Trident Nuclear Submarine, published by HarperCollins in 2001, The Commandos: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers, published by Simon & Schuster in 1994, and Air Warriors: The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot, published by Simon & Schuster in 1998. His latest exciting book, A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial that Gripped the Nation, will be published by Harper-Collins on September 7, 2004.

Born in Norfolk, Virginia on June 30, 1949, Waller holds a B.A. in English from Wake Forest University and an M.A. in Urban Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He lives in Annandale, Virginia with his wife and has three children.