Joe Klein is an American political commentator and author, best known for Primary Colors, a roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign that was written anonymously. He was a columnist for Time magazine and has also written for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Rolling Stone. His nonfiction includes Politics Lost, published in 2006, which takes on what he calls the pollster-consultant industrial complex, and a biography of Woody Guthrie.
