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Jon Meacham is the Editor of Newsweek. He arrived at the magazine as a writer in January 1995, became national affairs editor in June of that year, was named managing editor in November 1998 and was appointed editor of the magazine in October 2006. He supervises Newsweek's coverage of politics, international affairs, and breaking news, and has written cover stories on, among other topics, war, politics, religion, and race.
His latest book, American Gospel:
God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, was published
by Random House on April 11, 2006, and became a New York Times
and a Washington Post bestseller; it was favorably reviewed in
such diverse publications as The Washington Post and First Things.
Meacham's book Franklin and Winston:
An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, about the wartime
relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill, was published by Random
House on October 21, 2003, and became a New York Times bestseller.
Named a book of the year by The Los Angeles Times, it won The Churchill
Centre's 2005 Emery Reves Award for the best book of the year on Winston
Churchill (previous winners include Roy Jenkins, Sir Martin Gilbert, and
William Manchester) and the William H. Colby Military Writers' Symposium's
Book of the Year Award. The paperback edition of Franklin and Winston
was also a New York Times bestseller.
He has written for The New York Times Book Review, The
Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The Washington
Post Book World. In 2001, he edited Voices
in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Random
House), a collection of distinguished nonfiction about the midcentury
struggle against Jim Crow. He served as a judge of the 26th Annual Robert
F. Kennedy Book Award for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial.
Born in Chattanooga in 1969, Meacham graduated from The McCallie School and from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, with a degree summa cum laude in English Literature; he was salutatorian and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. An Episcopalian, Meacham is a communicant of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, where he serves on the Vestry of the 180 year-old parish. He is also a member of the Board of Regents of The University of the South, the Vestry of Trinity Church Wall Street, the Leadership Council of the Harvard Divinity School and the Council on Foreign Relations. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University in 2005 and also holds honorary doctorates from Emmanuel College, Boston; Loyola College in Maryland; and Wagner College, New York City.
A contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, Meacham began his career at The Chattanooga Times. He is currently at work on a biography of Andrew Jackson. He and his wife live in New York City with their two children.