This journalist, historian, and Vietnam War veteran is the author of eleven books. His most recent book, The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton, was published by Stackpole Press in December 2024. Leepson’s Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler was the first biography of the former Green Beret sergeant who wrote and sang “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” the No. 1 hit song of 1966. A former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C., Leepson has written for many publications as a full-time freelancer, including the Washington Post, New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Smithsonian, Military History, Civil War Times, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. He currently serves as Senior Writer, Arts Editor, and columnist for The VVA Veteran, a magazine published by Vietnam Veterans of America. Marc Leepson was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member John A. (Jack) Farrell.