Jennet Conant

Jennet Conant is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II;109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos; and The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. Her critically-acclaimed biography of her grandfather, one of the leaders of the Manhattan project, is Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist. She recently published The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer. Her latest book is Fierce Ambition: The life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins. A former journalist, she has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Newsweek, and The New York Times.