James Fallows

James Fallows is the National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, where he has worked for more than twenty years. He has written seven books and been published in most of the major magazines of the United States, and has appeared frequently as a commentator on National Public Radio. He has written a column about technology and politics for the Industry Standard[?] magazine, and his articles have appeared recently in Slate, the New York Times Magazine[?], the New York Review of Books[?], the New Yorker, The American Prospect, and other magazines.

From 1979 through 1996 Mr. Fallows was the Washington Editor for The Atlantic Monthly. For two years of that time he was based in Texas, and for four years in Asia. He wrote for the magazine about immigration, defense policy[?], politics, economics, computer technology[?], and other subjects. He has published five books while working at The Atlantic: National Defense (1981), More Like Us (1989), Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), and Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel (2001). He has won the American Book Award[?], for National Defense, and the National Magazine Award[?] for his Atlantic Monthly article about the consequences of victory in Iraq, The Fifty-First State?

Fallows was raised in Redlands[?], California and graduated from Redlands High School. He studied American history and literature at Harvard University, where he was the editor of the daily newspaper, the Harvard Crimson[?]. From 1970 to 1972 he studied economics at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar[?]. In the early 1970s he worked as an editor and writer for the Washington Monthly[?] and Texas Monthly magazines. He has written two other books, The Water Lords (1971) and Who Runs Congress? (with Mark Green[?] and David Zwick[?], 1972) and co-edited several others. For the first two years of the Carter administration he was President Carter's chief speechwriter.

In the 1980s and 1990s Fallows broadcast several hundred commentaries on NPR's Morning Edition. For two years, from 1996 to 1998, he was the editor of US News & World Report[?]. Since 1998 he has been chairman of the board of the New America Foundation[?], a nonprofit group based in Washington D.C. During the first six months of 1999, he worked at Microsoft designing software for writers. During the 2001-02 academic year he taught at the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2001 he has been executive producer of the annual high-level conference for technology-industry leaders, Agenda. He is an instrument-rated private pilot and enjoys playing tennis and running.

Fallows and his wife, Deborah, live in Washington and have two sons.