Brad Meltzer

Brad Meltzer is a #1 New York Times bestselling American thriller writer, born in Brooklyn in 1970 and raised largely in Miami, Florida. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School, where he earned course credit for the manuscript that became his 1997 debut novel, The Tenth Justice -- a Supreme Court thriller that established the template he has returned to across his career: an ordinary insider inside a major American institution who stumbles into a conspiracy reaching the top of government.

Across eleven further standalone thrillers, Meltzer has moved that premise through the White House counsel's office, the National Archives, and repeated returns to Founding Father secrets and Freemasonry, most recently launching the ongoing Zig & Nola series (also marketed as "Escape Artist"), following a Dover Air Force Base mortician and the Army's reclusive artist-in-residence. Beyond thrillers, Meltzer is an Eisner Award-winning comic book writer with runs on Justice League of America and Green Arrow, and a substantial nonfiction author across history, biography, and children's publishing -- including the long-running "Ordinary People Change the World" illustrated biography series for young readers and adult history titles on the assassinations of Lincoln, Kennedy, and George Washington's would-be assassination plot.

He lives in Florida with his wife and three children.