Winner of a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism, Steve Coll was managing editor of The Washington Post from 1998 to 2004 and covered Afghanistan as the Post's South Asia bureau chief between 1989 and 1992. He is now an associate editor at the Post.

Coll is the author of four books, including On the Grand Trunk Road and The Taking of Getty Oil.

He lives with his wife and three children in Maryland.