Don Lattin is a freelance jounalist and a religion writer who seems to be hopelessly stuck in the sixties. He is one of the nation's leading reporters covering alternative religious movements and figures in America. Over the past three decades he has covered Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones, Branch Davidian prophet David Koresh, and Heaven's Gate founder Marshall Herff Applewhite. He has also written extensively about the rise of the Christian right in the United States and the emergence of radical Islamists around the world.
