James Wallace is a senior reporter for the Seattle Post-lntelligencer, specializing in the coverage of Boeing aerospace and defense issues. For the past fifteen years, he has worked for the newspaper in various editing and reporting positions, including special projects reporter, investigative reporter, and night city editor. His previous jobs include city editor for the Yakima Herald-Republic in Yakima, Washington; a reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser and the Alabama Journal in Alabama; and editor of a weekly military newspaper in Asmara, Ethiopia, during his two years of service with the Army Security Agency.

Wallace has won numerous awards for his reporting and writing, including the nation's oldest journalism prize, the National Headliner Award for Public Service. He received this prestigious honor in 1990 for a series of investigative stories uncovering the prevalent practice of "backhauling" in the trucking industry: an expose that brought about federal legislation to prohibit tank trucks from hauling food and toxic chemicals on back-to-back trips.

Drawn to the drama of high-stakes business, Wallace is the author, with Jim Erickson, of Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, published in hardcover 1992 and in paperback 1993. Following up the success of this national bestseller by continuing to follow its subject, Wallace has recently written OVERDRIVE: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace.

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