Tom Reiss is an American journalist and author, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life. His other works include The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo and The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century. Reiss has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.