A Brief Bio

Steve Twomey started his career as a copyboy (that was the name of the job) at the Chicago Tribune when he was in high school. He graduated from Northwestern University and spent the next 14 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He reported, edited and wrote a column for The Washington Post, then wrote magazine stories and taught journalism at New York University and the City University of New York. Twomey authored  the  book  Countdown  to  Pearl  Harbor, and  the  next  year  was  the  keynote  speaker  at  the  Pearl  Harbor  ceremony  that  commemorates  the  attack.  Twomey  lives  in  New  Jersey,  with  his  wife.  They  are  the  proud  parents  of  an  adult  son.