Gary J. Bass

Gary Jonathan Bass is an American author and academic. He is a professor of politics and international relations in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Bass graduated from Harvard University with a BA and PhD. Bass is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University, where he teaches politics and international relations. His book about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, was a Pulitzer prize non-fiction finalist in 2014. The Council on Foreign Relations awarded the book the Arthur Ross Book Award. It also won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.

A former reporter for The Economist, Bass has also written articles for the New York Times,  The Harvard Crimson, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The New Republic,  and The Atlantic.