Timberg, Robert

Robert Timberg is the author of "The Nightingale's Song" and "John McCain, An American Odyssey." He served with the First Marine Division in South Vietnam from March 1966 to February 1967. He has worked at "The Baltimore Sun" for three decades as a reporter, editor and White House correspondent. Currently deputy chief of the "Sun's" Washington bureau, he lives in Bethesda, Md.