Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal and author of "The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History," a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller published by Broadway Business, a division of Random House. He writes about hedge funds, private-equity firms, big financial trades and other investing topics, and he helps pen the widely read "Heard on the Street" column.　

Greg was part of a team that won the 2007 Gerald Loeb award -- the highest honor in business journalism -- for breaking news coverage of the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, and he was part of a team that won the 2003 Gerald Loeb award for breaking news coverage of the demise of telecom provider WorldCom. Greg also was part of a team that won the New York Press Club Journalism award, and he was nominated for a 2008 Gerald Loeb award, for coverage of the mortgage meltdown.

Greg appears regularly on CNBC, Fox Business and other television networks to discuss hedge funds, stocks and financial trades, and he makes regular appearances on National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio and radio stations around the globe.

Greg joined the Journal in 1996 after writing about media companies for the New York Post. Previously, he was the managing editor of Mergers & Acquisitions Report, a newsletter published by Investment Dealers' Digest. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1988, Magna Cum Laude. He lives with his wife and two sons in West Orange, N.J., where they enjoy the New York Yankees in the summer, and suffer with the New York Knicks in the winter.

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