James Fallows
American writer and journalist (born 1949) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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James Mackenzie Fallows[1] (born August 2, 1949) is an American writer and journalist.[2] He is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. 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.[3][4]
Jim Fallows | |
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White House Director of Speechwriting | |
In office January 20, 1977 ā November 24, 1978 | |
President | Jimmy Carter |
Preceded by | Robert T. Hartmann |
Succeeded by | Bernard W. Aronson |
Personal details | |
Born | James Mackenzie Fallows (1949-08-02) August 2, 1949 (age 74) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Deborah Fallows |
Children | 2 |
Education | Harvard University (BA) The Queen's College, Oxford |
Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and has held the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of eleven books, including National Defense (1981), for which he received the 1983 National Book Award,[5] Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009),[6] China Airborne (2012), and the national best-seller Our Towns (2018), which was co-written with his wife, Deborah Fallows, and made into an HBO documentary of the same name in 2021.