Mystery solved? A speechwriter for Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential election has been widely identified as the author of the controversial “O: A Presidential Novel.”
According to Time’s Mark Halperin, Mark Salter crafted the novel set during the presidential race of 2012 that’s caused a commotion in both the literary and political worlds since its release, The Today Show reports. Though the book is signed anonymously and Salter declines comment, widespread consensus accepts him as author.
Consensus doesn’t equal correctness, but so far Salter hasn’t denied that he wrote the book.
“O” ‘s editors describe the book as “truth only fiction can tell,” and promises “revealing and insightful portraits of many prominent figures in the political world – some invented and some real.” And it’s not hard to peg the book’s protagonist, O,