Pete Earley


Pete Earley is an American journalist and writer of non-fiction books and novels.

Career

A former Washington Post reporter, he is the author of books about the Aldrich Ames and John Walker espionage cases. His book Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime Book in 1996. His book about the John Walker spy ring, Family of Spies, was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a CBS miniseries starring Powers Boothe and Lesley Ann Warren. In 2007, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his book Crazy.
His 2008 book, Comrade J, is about Russian SVR defector
Sergei Tretyakov.

Family

Pete's sister, Alice Lee Earley, was killed at the age of 17 on June 14, 1966 when she was hit by a car while riding Pete's scooter. Pete subsequently wrote about Alice's death and about the effect that Alice's death had on him in a 1985 Washington Post article called "To Find a Sister."

Non-fiction