Beverly Gage teaches American history at Yale. She is the author of This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History, an on-the-road journey into the American past and present to mark the nation’s 250th birthday in 2026. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (2022), a biography of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography, among other honors. In addition to her teaching and research, she writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, New York Times, and Washington Post.