Christopher Drew


Christopher Drew
Christopher Drew Adjunct Faculty cd2421@columbia.edu

Christopher Drew is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. He also is the co-author of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” a best-selling book about submarine spying during the Cold War. Drew has worked for The Times in Washington and New York since 1995. He also has reported for the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. During his 10 years in Washington, Drew twice won awards for national reporting from the White House Correspondents’ Association. After 9/11, he coordinated parts of The Times’s terrorism coverage. He also has covered the efforts of his hometown, New Orleans, to recover from Hurricane Katrina, and he dug into Barack Obama’s political background and finances during the presidential campaign. “Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage” was published in 1998, and it remained on the hardcover and paperback best-seller lists for nearly a year. The History Channel did a two-hour documentary on the book. Drew also has discussed national security issues on most of the major television news shows and in documentaries for PBS and the Discovery Channel. Drew graduated with honors in English from Tulane University. He now lives in Montclair, N.J.

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