In a career of more than 25 years in public television in the USA, Stephen Talbot has reported, written and produced more than thirty documentaries, including two Peabody Award winners, "Broken Arrow" (1980) an investigation of nuclear weapons accidents, and The Case of Dashiell Hammett (1982) (TV), a biography of the mystery writer, which also won an Edgar. He has produced nine documentaries for the critically-acclaimed series, "Frontline" (1983), including "Justice for Sale" (1999) with Bill Moyers, "Spying on Saddam" (1999), "The Long March of Newt Gingrich" (1996), "Rush Limbaugh's America" (1995), "The Heartbeat of America" (1993) about the travails of General Motors, and "The Best Campaign Money Can Buy" (1992) which won a duPont award from Columbia University. Talbot is currently the Series Editor for "Frontline World," an international news magazine airing on "Frontline".With David Davis, Talbot wrote and directed "The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation," a two-hour history special that aired nationally on PBS in 2005. Talbot has also written and co-produced several biographies of noted writers, including Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Beryl Markham, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Dos Passos.
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