Anthony Summers

Anthony Bruce Summers (born 21 December 1942) is an Irish author. He is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and has written ten non-fiction books. Summers is an Irish citizen who has been working with Robbyn Swan for more than thirty years before she became his co-author and fourth wife. After studying modern languages at Oxford University, he began work in laboring jobs, later progressing to freelance reporting for London newspapers. 

He later worked at Granada TV's World in Action, the UK's first tabloid public affairs program, and following that, he wrote the news for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation's Overseas Service. Later, he returned to England to BBC's Television News and then the BBC's 24 Hours, a late evening current affairs show that brought viewers international coverage of events.

Summers became the BBC's youngest Producer at 24, traveling worldwide and sending filmed reports from the United States, across Central and Latin America, and the conflicts in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Africa. A main focus, though, was on the momentous events of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States – such as on-the-spot reports, during 1968, on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and on Robert F. Kennedy's bid for the presidency. 

He smuggled cameras into the then Soviet Union to obtain the only TV interview with dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov – when he was under house arrest, having just won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. Before moving on from the BBC, Summers became an Assistant Editor of the weekly program Panorama. Based in Ireland for many years, he has, since the mid-'1970s, concentrated on investigative non-fiction, sometimes taking four to five years to complete a book.

Summers has written about historical figures, including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, President John F. Kennedy, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Richard Nixon, and Admiral Husband Kimmel, who commanded the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. He is the author of a major book on the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. 

He has also written biographies of celebrities Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra and investigations of Britain's Profumo Affair and the 2007 disappearance of the British child Madeleine McCann in Portugal. Most of Summers' books were developed as TV documentaries. Honeytrap was credited as a source for the John Hurt movie Scandal.