This episode features a married couple, both esteemed novelists. Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, as well as the memoir Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and non-fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. He wrote "My Fellow Veterans Reminded Me What This Election Was About," about the 2020 election in New York Times.
Lea Carpenter is the author of the novels Eleven Days, and Red, White, Blue, and the screenplay for Mile 22, the 2018 film about CIA’s Special Activities Division, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg and John Malkovich.
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