Bob Drogin grew up in Bayonne, N.J., and attended Oberlin College, Columbia University and Stanford University. He spent 38 years at the Los Angeles Times as a national, foreign and then Washington correspondent, and is the author of “Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Conman Who Caused a War,” published in 2007 by Random House. He has won or shared numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service.
He began visiting Martha’s Vineyard in 1972, and has owned a house in West Tisbury since 1993. He now enjoys six months a year on Martha’s Vineyard.