Seymour Myron Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer who has spent decades reporting on major government controversies and abuses of power. He gained widespread recognition in 1969 when he exposed the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, work for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times while also reporting on other significant national security issues, including the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the CIA's domestic spying program. His investigative work continued into the 2000s, when he detailed the U.S. military's torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, reporting for The New Yorker. Hersh has been recognized with numerous major journalism awards throughout his career, including five George Polk Awards and two National Magazine Awards. He is also an accomplished author, having written 11 books. Among his notable works is The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, published in 1983, which examined the career of Henry Kissinger and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.