Jane Mayer is the author of three bestselling and highly acclaimed narrative nonfiction books and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988, was co-authored with Doyle McManus, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, co-authored with Jill Abramson, was a National Book Award finalist. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of The New York Times' Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Walter Thompson Prize. The Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Goldsmith Book Prize, the Edward Weintal Prize, the Ridenhour Prize, the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism from the New York Public Library, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Excellence in Journalism The Kennedy Book Prize is given to the best book published in the United States

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Jane Mayer is the author of three bestselling and highly acclaimed narrative nonfiction books and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988, was co-authored with Doyle McManus, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, co-authored with Jill Abramson, was a National Book Award finalist. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of The New York Times' Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Walter Thompson Prize. The Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Goldsmith Book Prize, the Edward Weintal Prize, the Ridenhour Prize, the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism from the New York Public Library, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Excellence in Journalism The Kennedy Book Prize is given to the best book published in the United States

It was also a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Mayer has won the John Chancellor Award, the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the I.F. Stone Award for her work at The New Yorker.