Richard Ben Cramer

RICHARD BEN CRAMER has been a magazine writer for several years and was formerly Middle East correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has appeared in Esquire and Rolling Stone, and he has written on a variety of public figures. He is currently writing a book on the 1988 presidential campaigns. He lives in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 315). Ticknor & Fields.