Janet Reitman
is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone
and the author of Inside Scientology,
which was based on her National Magazine Award–nominated story of the same name
published in Rolling Stone in March,
2006. She is the first American journalist to publish a major book on
Scientology, and the only writer to have charted its full history.
Reitman also covered the war in Iraq for Rolling Stone and has reported on a wide
range of other topics, including the failure of US and international recovery
efforts in post-earthquake Haiti; the death of American aid worker Marla
Ruzicka in Baghdad; and the national childhood obesity crisis. She has also
reported extensively in Africa, profiling Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, and
covering conflicts in Sudan and Sierra Leone. In addition to Rolling
Stone, Reitman’s work has appeared in GQ,
Men’s Journal, the Los Angeles Times
Sunday Magazine, and Salon, among
other publications. She and journalist L. Christopher Smith live in Brooklyn,
New York, with their French sheepdog, Bode. |