About the Author

Clay Risen is a reporter at The New York Times and the bestselling author of Single Malt- A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland; American Whiskey, Bourbon and Rye- A Guide to the Nation's Favorite Spirit; and The Crowded Hour- Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century. A graduate of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the University of Chicago, he grew up in Nashville and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two young children.