ABOUT THE AUTHOR Journalist and writer Peg Tyre is a prize-winning investigative reporter and the author of the controversial and widely praised book The Trouble With Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Schools and What Parents and Educators Must Do (Crown 2008). New York Times best-selling writer Michael Thompson, co-author of Raising Cain, has called it "passionate, powerful and persuasive." Dr. Mel Levine, author of A Mind at a Time, called it "vital." He wrote, "Boys have their troubles and The Trouble With Boys sensitively reveals them." James Garbarino, author of Lost Boys, says The Trouble with Boys "Changes the way we look at something we thought we understood." Tyre spent two decades in journalism, as a magazine feature writer at New York magazine, a newspaper reporter at New York Newsday, an on-air correspondent for CNN and most recently, as a long time staff writer for Newsweek, covering social trends and education. Between 2001 and 2008, she pursued her passion: examining the fault lines in American culture formed by class, gender, race, ideology and upbringing for the national weekly. Praised for being "analytical," "often counterintuitive" and "not afraid to take on society's sacred cows," Tyre's cover stories were top sellers at the magazine. She was twice nominated for a National Magazine Award (the industry equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) received two Clarion Awards as well as sharing the Overseas' Press Club Ed Cunningham Prize for magazine feature writing. She was also honored by the Education Writers Association. She has discussed her stories on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, Anderson Cooper and NPR (Boston). During her years as a newspaper reporter, she covered the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and spent two years investigating nascent terrorist activity in the United States. In 1995, she co-authored a book, Two Seconds Under The World, which tried to warn Americans that terrorist networks were alive and well in the U.S. Before that, she covered crime in New York City at a time when rates of homicides and brutal assaults were skyrocketing and wrote fiction in the evening. Her two novels, Strangers in the Night and In the Midnight Hour, follow the main character, a single woman in New York City trying to hold on to a difficult job—covering crime—while maintaining her idealism and looking for love. Tyre's day job didn't suffer. The year she published her first novel (1992) Tyre was part of a group of reporters from New York Newsday who won a Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting. A graduate of Brown University, she has lectured at Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a frequent speaker at public and private schools around the nation. She continues to write about education, social trends and culture. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, novelist Peter Blauner and their two sons. Currently, she is a non-resident fellow at The Education Sector, a non-partisan educational think tank in Washington, D.C., and is at work on another book.