Jerry Adler is a former Senior Editor for Newsweek and Yahoo! News.[1] He writes for Smithsonian[2] and Scientific American magazines,[3] International Business Times,[4] The New Yorker, New York, Wired, Scientific American, Smithsonian, The Daily Beast,[5] Esquire, and is the author of High Rise, about the building of a skyscraper, and co-author of The Price of Terror, about the struggle of families of Pan Am 103 victims to get justice after the Lockerbie bombing. In 2009 he originated Newsverse at Newsweek.com, a weekly satirical poem.[6] He appeared on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" to recite one of his poems in 2010.
His articles were twice finalists for National Magazine Awards and won a Sydney Hillman award.