Beverly Gage

Beverly Gage is an American historian and author, Professor of American History at Yale University, where she was also the founding director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. Her scholarly work focuses on American political history, radicalism, and the history of the state. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (2022) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Drawing on Hoover's personal official and secret FBI files—which were only released after decades of legal battles—the biography is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account of Hoover's extraordinary forty-eight-year directorship of the FBI, from 1924 until his death in 1972. The book examines how Hoover shaped the modern American national security state. Gage's earlier book, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror (2009), investigated the 1920 Wall Street bombing. She has written for The New York Times, Politico, and other publications. Gage received her BA from Princeton University and her PhD from Columbia University. She has been recognized with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.