Moira Johnston

Moira Johnston was born in British Columbia. She has been a radio writer/broadcaster, an investigative journalist, and the author of seven books of non-fiction and dozens of articles. Her books and articles have covered many different themes but almost always deal with major contemporary social issues. She has written for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, National Geographic and Esquire. Perhaps her most famous book is The Last Nine Minutes: The Story of Flight 781 -- an investigative account of the Paris air disaster of March 3, 1974. She collaborated with Trevor Rees-Jones on The Bodyguard's Story, released in March 2000. Ms. Johnston currently resides in Napa Valley, where she founded Friends of the Napa Valley, an environmentalist group.