Neil Swidey

correspondent, Boston Globe

**Neil Swidey** is author of \_Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness.\_ He also wrote \_The Assist\_ and was a coauthor of \_Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy\_. A staff writer for The Boston Globe Magazine, Neil lives outside Boston with his wife and three daughters.