Jon Meacham
Presidential biographer and historian
Jon Meacham is an American historian and presidential biographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for American Lion. He became Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral in 2021.
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American Born 1969 in Chattanooga, United States
About Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham is an American historian, writer and presidential biographer. His book American Lion, about Andrew Jackson, earned the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in the biography category. Earlier in his career he was editor-in-chief of Newsweek and an executive editor at Random House. He is a contributing editor at Time magazine and also writes for The New York Times Book Review. In November 2021 he became Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral, and he holds an endowed chair in the American presidency at Vanderbilt University. Our catalog includes American Lion, The Soul of America and Impeachment.