Jon Meacham

Jon Meacham
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Born
Jon Ellis Meacham

(1969-05-20) May 20, 1969 (age 55)
EducationUniversity of the South (BA)
Occupations
Spouse
Margaret Keith Smythe
(m. 1996)
Children3
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
WebsiteOfficial website

Jon Ellis Meacham (/ˈməm/; born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He is the author of several books. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.