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Tim O'Brien is an editor at The New York Times, where he oversees the Sunday Business section. Prior to becoming Sunday Business editor in 2006, Tim was a staff writer with the Times. Among the topics and people he has written about for the paper are Wall Street, Russia, Manhattan's art world, cybercrimes and identity theft, Warren Buffett, geopolitics, international finance, digital media, Hollywood, terrorism and terrorist financing, Donald Trump, money laundering, gambling and white-collar fraud.

Tim is currently under contract to write a series of historical novels set between the Civil War and World War I. He is the author of a biography of Donald Trump, "TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald," which Warner Books published in 2005. His previous non-fiction book, "Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glitz, Glamour, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry," was published in 1998.



TrumpNation

Funny money, anyone? Find out the true story behind the Art of Being the Donald and visit the over-the-top worlds Trump inhabits.

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