James Brewer Stewart (born c.1952 in Quincy, Illinois) is an American lawyer, journalist, and author.

A graduate of DePauw University and Harvard Law School, James B. Stewart is a member of the Bar of New York and Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for his articles in The Wall Street Journal about the 1987 dramatic upheaval in the stock market and insider trading. These writings led to the publishing of his best-selling work of non-fiction called Den of Thieves that recounted the criminal conduct of Wall Street arbitrager Ivan Boesky and junk bond king, Michael Milken.

His 1999 factual work, Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With Murder, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award.

He is currently a contributor to The New Yorker and an Editor-at-Large for Smart Money magazine and SmartMoney.com. Stewart also serves as the president of the board of trustees of his alma mater, DePauw.

Bibliography

• DisneyWar (2005)(:ISBN 0684809931)
• '' In Search of Vision (2004)(: ISBN 1592212344)
• Heart of a Soldier (2002)(:ISBN 0743240987)
• Blind Eye (1999) (:ISBN 0783889348)
• Follow the Story (1998)(:ISBN 0684850672)
• The Abolitionists and American Slavery (1997) (: ISBN 080901596X)
• The President and His Adversaries (1996)(:ISBN 0684831392)
• ''Club der Diebe (1994) (: ISBN 3548232078)
• '' A Book of Days (1992) (: ISBN 1566570247)
• Den of Thieves (1991) (: ISBN 067179227X)
• Prosecutors (1987)(: ISBN 0671668358)
• Inside America's Most Powerful Law Firms (1983)(: ISBN 0671420232)

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