Neil Swidey has covered a broad array of topics for the ''Boston Globe'' since 1999. Swidey has also authored nonfiction books including ''Trapped Under the Sea'', which reached number one on the Boston Globe’s bestseller list in 2014 and was rated one of the year’s best nonfiction books by

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. Swidey’s first book, ''The Assist'', was also a Boston Globe bestseller. He coauthored a

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entitled ''Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of

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''. He has been an analyst for

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on matters having to do with former U.S. Senator Kennedy. Swidey currently teaches journalism at

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