Walter Isaacson
Biographer and journalist
Walter Isaacson is an American journalist and biographer who teaches history at Tulane University. He has written about figures such as Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Elon Musk.
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American Born 1952 in New Orleans, United States
About Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson was born in New Orleans in 1952. He studied at Harvard University and at Pembroke College, Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar. He has served as editor of Time, as chair and CEO of CNN, and as president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. Since 2018 he has also interviewed guests on the PBS and CNN program Amanpour & Company. In 2023 he won the National Humanities Medal. Elon Musk, published in 2023, is among his biographies. His other subjects include Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci and Jennifer Doudna.