Vicky Ward, bestselling author and investigative journalist

The James Patterson Speaker Series at Manhattan University welcomes Vicky Ward, #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist, for a discussion of American Rage: The Making of Luigi Mangione, her forthcoming book co-authored with James Patterson.

Vicky Ward is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist. She is the co-author with James Patterson of The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy; and the author of Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump; The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons; and The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High-Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers. Her next book with James Patterson, American Rage: The Making of Luigi Mangione, will be published by Little, Brown in February 2027.

Ward is also the host and co-producer of the Audible Original podcast Pipeline to Power: The 40-Year Plan to Capture the Supreme Court and the Audible Original podcast and documentary Chasing Ghislaine, an investigative series about Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

A former senior CNN reporter and longtime Vanity Fair contributing editor, Ward has also been executive editor of Talk Magazine and features editor of the New York Post. She writes the weekly Substack newsletter Vicky Ward Investigates.

Moderator:
Kelly Marin, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Professor of Psychology

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

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