Craig Unger is an award winning investigative reporter and author based in New York. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and many other publications. He is currently a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine and the best-selling author of House of Bush, House of Saud (Scribner, 2004), and The Fall of the House of Bush (Scribner, 2007). He is also a Fellow at The Center on Law and Security at NYU’s School of Law. His work was featured in Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and he has appeared as an analyst on CNN, The Charlie Rose Show on PBS, NBC’s Today Show, National Public Radio, ABC Radio, Air America, and many other broadcast outlets.

Unger grew up in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Harvard University in 1971. In the Seventies, he was co-editor and co-owner of The Paris Metro, an English-language biweekly city magazine in Paris. In the late Seventies and early Eighties, he was a columnist, senior editor and writer for New York Magazine.

In 1992, “In the Loop,” a New Yorker article co-written by Unger and Murray Waas, revealed how the Reagan-Bush administration had provided Saddam Hussein with technology, weapons, intelligence and funding—in apparent contravention of United States law—with George H.W. Bush delivering military intelligence to Saddam in 1986.

In 1993, Unger became Deputy Editor of The New York Observer. He was editor in chief of Boston Magazine from 1995 to 2000, and was cited by MediaWeek Magazine as one of the top editors in the country for reviving a “tepid” magazine and breaking major national news stories. Under Unger’s aegis, Boston won first prize from the City and Regional Magazine Awards (CRMA) as the best city or regional magazine in the country and was selected as the best city or regional magazine in the country by Folio Magazine.

In 2004, Unger’s House of Bush, House of Saud made the New York Times bestseller list and became an international bestseller. The book was hailed by the press as “chilling,” “gripping,” “compelling” and “explosive,” and its central premise was featured prominently in Michael Moore’s movie, Fahrenheit 9/11. Unger also appeared in other documentaries such as American Zeitgeist, in TV productions in England (Channel Four), Germany and Greece, and made many nationally televised appearances in England, Spain, Greece, Germany, Brazil, and Japan.