David A. Vise is a Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of five books including The Google Story, the first major biography of the search giant. David spent 23 years as a reporter at The Washington Post and got started in journalism as a copy boy at The Tennessean in Nashville, where he was born and raised. David was named one of the 125 most influential graduates of The Wharton School and was founding Executive Director of Modern States Freshman Year for Free, the nation's largest free-college-for-credit program. A first-generation American, David has been married for 44 years to Lori Vise, an independent college consultant. They live in Bethesda, MD.