A for­mer reporter at the Boston Globe and Nie­man fel­low, Lar­ry Tye is the author of six books, includ­ing Home Lands: Por­traits of the New Jew­ish Dias­po­ra, and the best­selling Satchel: The Life and Times of an Amer­i­can Leg­end. Tye runs a Boston-based train­ing pro­gram for med­ical jour­nal­ists and is cur­rent­ly writ­ing, for Ran­dom House, a biog­ra­phy of Robert F. Kennedy.