Larry Tye was an award-winning journalist at The Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Tye, who grew up with Superman on his night table and Clark Kent as a role model, now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists. He is the author of The Father of Spin, Home Lands, Rising from the Rails, and Satchel, and co-author, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. Tye is now writing a biography of Robert F. Kennedy.