After The Hot House was published, Washingtonian Magazine identified Pete Earley in a cover story entitled, Top Journalists: Washington's Media Elite, as one of ten journalist/authors in America who "have the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency."
At a reading and signing inside the famed Books and Books store in Coral Gables. Pictured left to right: the Honorable Steven Leifman, Florida judge and mental health advocate, Judy Robinson, veteran NAMI leader, Pete and Patti Earley.
- Graduated in 1969 from Fowler High School in Fowler, Colorado, population 1,000.
- Graduated in 1973 from Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma, with a BS degree in business and mass communication.
- Worked as a reporter from:
1972 to 1973 at the Enid Morning News and Daily Eagle, Enid, Oklahoma.
1973 to 1975 at the Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas.
1975 to 1978 at the Tulsa Tribune, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1978 to 1980 at the Tulsa Tribune, as its Washington D.C. correspondent.
1980 to 1986 at the Washington Post on its Metro, National, and Magazine staffs.
1986 began working full-time as an author.
1988 Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring
1991 Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood Atonement Killings
1992 The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
1995 Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town
1997 Confessions of A Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames
2000 Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas
2002 WITSEC: Inside The Federal Witness Protection Program
2004 The Big Secret
2005 Lethal Secrets
2006 Crazy: A Fathers Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
2006 The Apocalypse Stone
2008 Comrade J: Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War
Pete Earley is married and has seven children. The most traumatic event in his life while growing up, the death of his sister. He later wrote about it for The Washington Post.
