Michael Farquhar
is the author of the bestsellers A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors and A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing. A writer and editor at The Washington Post specializing in history, he is coauthor of The Century: History as It Happened on the Front Page of the Capital's Newspaper. His work has also been published in the Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Reader's Digest, and Newsday, as well as on Discovery Online. He appeared on the History Channel's "Russia, Land of the Tsars and The French Revolution."