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About John A. Farrell
- John Aloysius Farrell is an American author.
- He has written biographies of U.S.
- President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, and defense attorney Clarence Darrow.
- He is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for The Boston Globe and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post. On January 2, 2017, the New York Times reported that historian Farrell had unearthed notes written by Nixon aide H.R.
- Haldeman, which confirmed that Nixon personally authorized "throwing a monkey wrench" into Lyndon Johnson's attempts to negotiate peace in Vietnam on the eve of the 1968 election.
- In his famous interviews with newsman David Frost, and elsewhere, Nixon had always denied any participation in what history has come to call the Chennault Affair - after Anna Chennault, the Nixon campaign's go-between with South Vietnam.
- Farrell's discovery earned praise from his peers. On April 16, 2018 the Pulitzer Prize board announced that Richard Nixon: The Life was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. On April 13, 2018, the New-York Historical Society awarded Farrell the title of "American Historian Laureate," and presented him with the $50,000 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History for Richard Nixon: The Life.
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