John Aloysius Farrell

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John A. Farrell at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.

John Aloysius Farrell is an award-winning reporter who works as a congressional correspondent at National Journal magazine, after serving as a senior writer throughout 2011 at the The Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit center for investigative reporting in Washington, D.C. He is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for The Boston Globe and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post. He is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned a biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow, which was published by Doubleday in June, 2011.

Born in Huntington, New York, Farrell graduated from the University of Virginia in 1975 before working at newspapers in Montgomery County, Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland. He was part of a team that won a George Polk award at The Denver Post, and he has received the Gerald Ford and Aldo Beckman prizes for his White House coverage, and the Raymond Clapper award for Washington reporting while at The Boston Globe. His book on Tip O'Neill won the Hardeman prize from the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential library for the year's best book on Congress.

Excerpts of his work have been published in Jack Beatty's collection Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan, and in Leadership for the Public Service by Richard A. Loverd. Farrell was a contributor, as well, to The Boston Globe's 2004 biography of U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry.

Farrell is an on-camera commentator in the PBS "American Experience" documentary Jimmy Carter, and the television series The Irish in America.