Vicky Ward is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, podcaster, documentary host and producer, former CNN Senior Reporter, magazine editor at large, entrepreneur, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. She uses multi-media to deliver investigative reporting with a specialty in power, money, and corruption in the United States and abroad.

Ward is the author of the bestselling Substack newsletter, “Vicky Ward Investigates.”

Her most recent book about the 2022 killing of four University of Idaho students, The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy (Little, Brown and Company), co-authored with the best-selling novelist James Patterson, was published July 14, 2025, and became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.

On the heels of The Idaho Four, praised by The Guardian as “a mesmerizing read and a great detective story, yet sadly all true,” it was announced that Ward and Patterson will reunite for a new book, which will chronicle the events of December 4, 2024, when, at 6:44 a.m., a masked gunman fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the New York Hilton Midtown.

Her previous book—Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Power. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump (St. Martin’s Press, 2019)— was an instant New York Times bestseller.

Ward is also the author of two other best-selling books, The Liar’s Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How one Building Broke the World’s Toughest Tycoons (Wiley, 2014) and The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers (Wiley, 2010).

Ward is the host and co-producer of the Audible Original podcast Pipeline to Power: The 40-Year Plan to Capture the Supreme Court, and the docu-series Chasing Ghislaine, an explosive investigative series about Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell executive produced by bestselling author James Patterson. Chasing Ghislaine is also available as an Audible Original podcast.

Previously, Ward was a Senior Reporter at CNN and the editor at large of HuffPost and HuffPost’s long-form magazine, Highline, and Town & Country magazine. She was also a contributor to Esquire and contributing editor to Vanity Fair for eleven years where her articles covered politics, finance, art and culture and society. For more information, see her full bio.