Listen to Ted Gup at 10 a.m. Sunday on WVIZ

Author Ted Gup's appearance this week at the City Club forum in Cleveland will air on WVIZ-Channel 25 at 10 a.m. Sunday.

Ted, a former BJ reporter, discussed "A Secret Gift," about his grandfather, Samuel J. Stone, who wrote numerous checks anonymously under a made-up name to help out people in financial straits in the Canton area.

Ted also wrote “Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life” (Doubleday, 2007), winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and the bestseller, “The Book of Honor: Covert Lives And Classified Deaths At The CIA” (Doubleday, 2000.) He is a former investigative reporter for The Washington Post and wrote for Time magazine.

Since 2009, Ted has chaired the Emerson College (Boston) journalism department. He also taught at Case Western Reserve University, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.

He and wife Peggy live in Boston and Bucksport, Maine. Their children are David and Matthew.

Click on the headline to see a previous BJ Alums article on Ted.