Authors

Ken Armstrong
Investigative reporter, The Seattle Times
Investigative reporter at The Seattle Times when the book was written, later at The Marshall Project and ProPublica.

Nick Perry
Higher-education reporter, The Seattle Times
Reporter from New Zealand. Covered higher education at The Seattle Times, 2002–2011; from 2011 the Associated Press correspondent for New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Together
- Victory and Ruins · The Seattle Times · January 27–30, 2008
- Scoreboard, Baby, 2010
- George Polk Award, 2008
- Worth Bingham Prize, honorable mention, 2009
- Michael Kelly Award, 2009
- Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism, 2009
- Editors’ Choice, 2010
- Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Fact Crime, 2011
- Campus Read, 2013
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners, 2014