James Fallows
Journalist, Author
1949 –
Who is James Fallows?
James Fallows is an American writer and journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job.
Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and holds the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of ten books, including National Defense, for which he received the 1983 National Book Award, Looking at the Sun, Breaking the News, Blind into Baghdad, Postcards from Tomorrow Square, and China Airborne.
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- Born
- Aug 2, 1949
Philadelphia - Also known as
- Jim Fallows
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, Harvard University
History of the United States
(Specialized in American literature) - University of Oxford
Economics - Harvard College
- Bachelor's degree, Harvard University
- Employment
- Jimmy Carter
- Program designer, Microsoft Corporation
- Chairman, New America Foundation
(1999 - ) - U.S.News & World Report, L.P.
- Lived in
- Seattle
- Berkeley
- Washington, D.C.
- Shanghai
- California
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on July 23, 2013
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