JOHN HECHINGER, author of “True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities” at the Boston Public Library

In True Gentlemen, JOHN HECHINGER embarks on a deep investigation of Sigma Alpha Epsilon―a national fraternity with more than 15,000 undergraduate brothers spread over 230 chapters nationwide―and fraternity culture generally. He exposes the vast gulf between fraternity culture’s founding ideals and the realities of its impact on colleges and the world at large while making a case for how deeply needed reform can happen.

HECHINGER, a senior editor at Bloomberg News, is a 2011 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for his reporting on education. Before joining Bloomberg in 2010, he was a senior special writer at the Wall Street Journal, where he focused on education and finance. A graduate of Yale University, he lives near Boston with his wife and daughter.