Bob started out in the news business when he was ten years old, delivering his hometown paper, the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He spent three decades as a reporter for The Post & Courier of Charleston, S.C., and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, including four years as Chief Asia Correspondent, based in Tokyo, and eight years covering the White House. He's a former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and author of the nonfiction book, The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James. His debut novel is The Bicycle Man.
Bob is married to the artist and children’s book author Karen Deans. They live in Bethesda, Maryland, and have three grown children.
