Tom Wells

Tom Wells is a former Guggenheim Fellow and an author of three books: The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam, Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg, and (with Richard A. Leo) The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four. He is currently finishing a book of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations when Kissinger was in the Nixon and Ford administrations, and another book on the innocence revolution in the U.S. justice system (with Richard A. Leo). He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He has received fellowships and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Tijeras, New Mexico.