Jack Cheevers is the author of "Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo," winner of the 2014 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. He worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for twenty-seven years, including stints at the Los Angeles Times, the Oakland Tribune, and the Associated Press and United Press International bureaus in San Francisco. His work has been published by The New York Times, Politico magazine, Mother Jones, San Francisco magazine, Reader's Digest, ResponsibleStatecraft.org, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and many other newspapers. He has spoken before the Marines' Memorial Club of San Francisco, the Naval Order of the United States New York Commandery, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, the Military Officers Association of America, and other groups. A Massachusetts native, he is a proud graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He lives on a pond in New Hampshire with his rescue dog, Lupe.