defined by a misguided desire for secrecy and was undermining the transparency of democratic institutions. His 2010 book, A Secret Gift, much unlike anything else he had ever written, chronicles the Christmastime 1933 anonymous charitable efforts of his Romanian Orthodox Jewish grandfather, Sam Stone, to help families in Canton, Ohio affected by the Great Depression. Gup lost his oldest son David, aged 21, to drugs and alcohol on October 18, 2011. David had been diagnosed with ADHD in the first grade and prescribed medication. In the Michaelmas term of 2015 he was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, where he was affiliated to the St. Cuthbert's Society SCR. He returned to Durham as Writer in Residence at St Cuthbert's in 2017 and again in 2019. Books The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA. Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life. 2007 A Secret Gift. 2010 References External links Living people American male non-fiction writers Case Western Reserve University faculty Emerson College faculty George Polk Award recipients The Washington Post journalists Time (magazine) people 1950 births Gerald Loeb Award winners for Large Newspapers Western Reserve Academy alumni Fellows of the Institute of Advanced Study (Durham)