David Talbot is an author, journalist, media entrepreneur, and book publisher. He is founder and former editor-in-chief of Salon.com, and is author of the bestsellers Season of the Witch and Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years,  The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, and the illustrated pulp history Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story of the Man Who Saved America. His forthcoming memoir, Between Heaven And Hell: The Story of My Stroke (Chronicle Books, 2020),  is a chronicle of his life-changing year following his 2017 stroke, “a year that turned his life upside down, and ultimately, saved him.”