During her 28 years as a reporter for The New York Times, Judith Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for her January 2001 stories on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, covered a country traumatized by the events of 9/11, was an anthrax letter hoax victim amidst a series of very real similar attacks, became a lightning rod of controversy for her discredited reportage of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, and went to jail for refusing to name her source in the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal. Miller is the author of four books, including Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War, which was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning documentary. Her new memoir tells the blunt, wry story of a respected but controversial life on the front lines of history.

In conversation with Dick Polman, "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, and national political columnist at WHYY's Newsworks.org