Chris Matthews is the author of The Hardball Handbookand is the star of MSNBC's* Hardball and NBC's The Chris Matthews Show.He contributes frequently to NBC's Today and is a familiar guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He was a longtime Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner and...

Chris Matthews is the author of The Hardball Handbookand is the star of MSNBC's* Hardball and NBC's The Chris Matthews Show.He contributes frequently to NBC's Today and is a familiar guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He was a longtime Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner and later a national columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.* He holds the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Communications, eighteen honorary doctorates from American colleges and universities, and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He lives with his wife, Kathleen, an executive vice president with Marriott International, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.