Robert F. Keeler is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and military veteran who spent more than 45 years in journalism. At Newsday on Long Island, he wrote about town, county, and state politics and spent a decade covering religion. He served as Albany bureau chief, editor of the paper’s Sunday magazine, and member of the editorial board. His previous books are Newsday: A Candid History of the Respectable Tabloid; Parish! The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Story of a Vibrant Catholic Community; and, with co-author Paul Moses, Days of Intense Emotion: Praying with Pope John Paul II in the Holy Land.