Award-winning, critically acclaimed (and sometimes controversial) writer Marcia Mitchell is the author of numerous non-fiction and fiction books, published through Simon & Schuster, Holt Rinehart & Winston, and other publishers. Her articles have appeared in national women's magazines, on the Huffington Post and Truthout to name a few. She is an award-winning author who has received recognition by the National Federation of Press Women, the Associated Press, the Guardian and other international publications, intelligence officers associations, and more. She has also been interviewed on national television and radio, and was invited to appear before a Capitol Hill panel to testify about the Katharine Gun case, based on her book on that story, The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War -- filmed under the title Official Secrets. She is a former Associate Director of the American Film Institute, and former senior executive of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She divides her time between her homes in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Southern California.