David Clary is an award-winning author and a news editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune. Clary's latest book is Soul Winners: The Ascent of America's Evangelical Entrepreneurs, published by Prometheus Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot, in August 2022. Soul Winners explores how America's entrepreneurial spirit has shaped evangelical ministries and influenced their worldview. Soul Winners blends meticulous research and thorough reporting to explain how evangelical entrepreneurs rose to power and assesses the consequences for the country. His previous book, Gangsters to Governors: The New Bosses of Gambling in America, earned medals from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in 2018. The book, published by Rutgers University Press, explores how and why states have encouraged and promoted the expansion of legalized gambling in America. Gangsters to Governors was cited five times in the U.S. Supreme Court's majority opinion that struck down the federal ban on sports gambling in May 2018. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 2002, he worked in a variety of editing and design roles at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. Clary, a native of Central New York, is a graduate of Syracuse University with degrees in newspaper journalism and political science.