Alex Taylor, Senior Editor-at-large (ret.), Fortune magazine, has covered the auto industry for more than 30 years and is the author of "Sixty to Zero: An inside look at the collapse of General Motors – and the Detroit Auto Industry," published in 2010 by Yale University Press. The author of the "MotorWorld" column on Fortune.com, he has won numerous awards for his automotive writing, including three first prizes from the Detroit Press Club Foundation and "Journalist of the Year" from the Washington Automotive Press Association. A former adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, in 2000, he was selected one of 100 Notable Business Journalists Of The 20th Century.