Wendy Goldman Rohm

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Wendy Goldman Rohm is an award-winning investigative journalist, poet, playwright and New York Times best-selling author. Her first book, The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates (Random House, 1998) was published around the world in 14 languages, and received much critical acclaim.

Rohm recently finished her fourth book and is working on her fifth. "The Eighth Day: The Promise and the Peril of Stem Cell Research and the Regeneration of Man," is a nonfiction, international thriller, which will be published next year. It includes a powerful foreword by Christopher Reeve (produced during the 4-year creation of this book before he sadly left us), and introduction by Dr. Robert Lanza, one of the world's top stem cell pioneers.

Rohm has been a correspondent for numerous national and international newspapers and magazines including: The New York Times Syndicate International, Men's Vogue, Wired magazine, Financial Times of London, Tina Brown's former Talk magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New Yorker artist Dan Adel's French literary magazine L'Os de Figue, Red Herring magazine, Upside magazine, Information Week, and many others.

[While continuing to author her own books, Rohm has been a literary agent for The Waxman Literary Agency, NY, NY, Waterside Productions, and an author and book proposal ghostwriter for Sterling Lord Literistic, New York. She also works with other international agencies as an associate literary agent. She launched the Rohm Agency in Chicago to develop new authors of narrative nonfiction and fiction.]

Rohm's feature article, "Seven Days of Creation," on the cover of Wired magazine, is a view inside the top human cloning lab in the U.S., and the ground breaking things that happened there during one 7-day period in October. Rohm appeared on CNN in December 2003 discussing the article, which was quoted worldwide and has been syndicated by The New York Times Syndicate International. It is also an excerpt from her upcoming book "The Eighth Day."

Rohm also wrote The Murdoch Mission (December 2001, John Wiley & Sons, NY), which allowed her rare access to the Murdoch family, and included exclusive one-on-one interviews with Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan, his senior executives and closest confidants. The book was widely acclaimed for the rare inside view it provided of Murdoch's News Corp. empire. (Many news stories breaking now about Murdoch's News Corp. empire, two years after The Murdoch Mission was published, were predicted and described in detail in Rohm’s book, which has been quoted around the world.) Rohm appeared on August 2, 2005, talking about recent Murdoch news, on Good Morning America and on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.

Rohm has made numerous appearances on such national and international television and radio broadcasts as The Today Show, CNN’s Talk Back Live, CNN Headline News, Connie Chung's Eye to Eye, Good Morning America, World News Tonight, PBS' Technopolitics; and other programs on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, BBC television and radio, ABC Radio, National Public Radio, and many more. In addition, her books have been quoted in hundreds of magazines and newspapers, and on television and radio broadcasts around the world.

For her writing, she has received a Jesse Neal award for editorial excellence, and two national Computer Press awards for her investigations into the antitrust case against Microsoft, as well as exposes on several mega-mergers of the 1990s.

Her book The Microsoft File won a regional “Best Nonfiction Book of 1998” award in Illinois, was the #1 bestseller on Amazon, a Barnes & Noble bestseller, a BusinessWeek bestseller, and a NY Times bestseller; her book “Under the Radar,” written with Robert Young, the CEO of Red Hat Software, was Number 1 on the Asian Wall St. Journal’s business bestseller list in 1999. Like The Microsoft File, it was published in 12 languages around the world.

Rohm has held a series of Master's Teas at Yale University, where, among other things, she discusses the process of creating nonfiction and fiction, getting an agent, working with your publisher, and developing trusted relationships with sensitive sources ranging from government insiders, to heads of corporations, Nobel laureates, celebrities, fugitives and ordinary people.

Rohm has worked as editor-at-large, managing editor, features editor, and senior editor for a number of major publishers, including Ziff Davis and CMP Media.
She resides in Chicago and France, and teaches a series of intensive writing workshops in both places. (Write to GreatManuscripts@cs.com for information Rohm's Masters Tea workshops in Provence, France. Enrollment is limited to 20 attendees.)

Rohm has been a recipient of a Wallace Stevens Poetry Award, and her writing has been produced Off Off Broadway. She has also directed professionally for the stage at Chicago's legendary Organic Theatre, under the artistic direction of Richard Fire, and has acted professionally over the years on such major Chicago stages as Victory Gardens, the Organic Theatre, and others.

Rohm served for more than a decade as producer and artistic director for Chicago's Element Theatre Company, which has produced numerous Chicago premieres and new plays, and received Joseph Jefferson awards for its innovative work.

Forthcoming nonfiction: Camus' Bicycle

For media inquiries, more information on forthcoming books, book workshops, and Rohm's upcoming speeches around the country and internationally, write GreatManuscripts@cs.com or call 312-239-0965 or (abroad) (33) 0870 467 187.