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"Before we had schools of journalism, there was a straightforward task called reporting that took you where you had not been, and told you what you had not known. The Hot House is by a reporter, and gives the readers reporting at its very finest..." "Earley is a fair-minded reporter who apparently decided that his own feelings were irrelevant to the story. There is a purity to this kind of journalism, one that bestows an honor on the fact-seeking reader..."  These two excerpts from book reviews sum up my philosophy as a non-fiction author.
I want to take you places you normally wouldn't go and introduce you to people who you normally
wouldn't meet. So far, I've written books about the two most damaging spies in recent history --
John Walker Jr., and Aldrich Ames -- and taken readers "inside" a hard-core penitentiary,
a sex-crazed religious cult, a racially-charged unsolved murder in the Deep South, a billion dollar Las Vegas casino and WITSEC: the Federal Witness Protection Program, which hides criminals who cooperate with prosecutors.
For me, there is no purer form of journalism than a book. A journalist doesn't have to worry about "sacred cows" or partisan politics. If you can find a publisher willing to finance your idea, you can write about any topic that you wish without pulling punches. That's why I love what I do. I'm not going to waste space here trying to convince you to buy my books. They speak for themselves. I just hope that if you read one, you will agree that I have met my goal as a writer and that the trip we took together on the pages was worthwhile. Biography of Pete Earley: Graduated from 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. Read the story of Missing Alice. Books published: 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 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." 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. |