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.”
In February 2027, she and James Patterson will publish American Rage: The Making of Luigi Mangione (Little, Brown and Company) about the murder of UnitedHealth Care CEO Brian Thompson.
This comes on the heels of their #1 NYT bestseller, The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy, published last July 2025.
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.
