work as a reporter for the Washington Post. Family life Achenbach lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Mary Stapp, and their three daughters. Selected works Why Things Are (1991), It Looks Like a President Only Smaller: Trailing Campaign 2000 (2001), Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe (2003), The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West (2005), A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher (2011), References External links Achenblog – the official Joel Achenbach blog Video discussions and debate featuring Achenbach on BloggingHeads.tv Official website for "A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea" Living people 1960 births American humorists American science writers American male bloggers American bloggers Princeton University alumni The Washington Post people 21st-century American non-fiction writers