Bruce B. Henderson

Who is Bruce B. Henderson?

Bruce Henderson, also known as Bruce B. Henderson, is an American journalist and the author of more than 20 nonfiction books, including numerous bestsellers. He is a member of the Authors Guild and American Society of Journalists and Authors, and has taught writing courses at USC School of Journalism and Stanford University. After service in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and following college on the G.I. Bill, he worked as an investigative reporter for several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and as an associate editor at New West and California Magazine. His writing has appeared in many other periodicals, such as Smithsonian Magazine, Esquire, Playboy and Reader's Digest. His true crime title, And the Sea Will Tell, written with Charles Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, was a #1 New York Times hardcover bestseller and highly-rated CBS miniseries. "The book succeeds on all counts," reported the Los Angeles Times. "The final pages are some of the most suspenseful in trial literature."

Henderson co-authored the autobiography of vintners Ernest Gallo and Julio Gallo, as well as Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown, the memoirs of one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, Gordon Cooper. Henderson's 2005 book, True North: Peary, Cook, and The Race to the Pole, examined the ongoing controversy as to which explorer reached the North Pole first: Robert Peary in 1909 or Frederick Cook in 1908. Publishers Weekly commented: "This adventure yarn delivers as both a cautionary tale and a fitting memorial to polar exploration." In 2006, Henderson co-authored Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, the autobiography of African-American theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett, which in addition to the United States has been published in the United Kingdom, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.