John B. Roberts

A senior television producer for the top-rated, Emmy-nominated McLaughlin Group, J.B. Roberts II worked in the Reagan White House and presidential campaigns. An international political consultant, he advised leaders and politicians on five continents. In addition to books, he writes for television, magazines and newspapers like The New York Times, Washington Post, and Washington Times. He's a graduate of Oxford University with a degree in PPE.

He got his start as an author with a play that he wrote and directed for a school performance in the fourth grade. His first professional job as a writer and editor came when he and a college buddy scraped by through a dreary English winter to launch a magazine in London. When State Department exams required him to go back to America, he wrote magazine and newspaper articles for the airfare home. To get the money to return to London, he took a temporary job on a presidential campaign. Sixteen years later, after two terms in the White House and a decade as an international political consultant, he made a mid-career switch back to writing fulltime.

For the last four years, he has criss-crossed America's backroads towing a retro-mod Bowlus Road Chief trailer while exploring America's "fly over" country for a travel book.

His latest novel, "Stripping Lolita," is in revision.

Roberts was The Mclaughlin Group's senior producer and creative collaborator with television host John McLaughlin until his death in 2016. He has written thousands of shows and interviews for world leaders, celebrities, experts, politicians, and authors. In 1998, he launched CNCB's top-rated talk show, "The McLaughlin Special Report." As a freelance producer, he works on assignment around the world, from exotic locales such as a remote atoll in Tahiti to world capitals like London and Madrid.

When he isn't writing books, articles, or TV shows, he can be found drawing and painting in his art studio,or wandering remote biways in his 1984 CJ7 Jeep.