James Fallows

Jim Fallows
Fallows at the 2010 National Chinese Language Conference
White House Director of Speechwriting
In office January 20, 1977 – November 24, 1978
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Robert T. Hartmann
Succeeded by	Bernard W. Aronson
Personal details
Born	James Mackenzie Fallows (1949-08-02) August 2, 1949 (age 75) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Deborah Fallows
Children	2
Education	Harvard University (BA) The Queen's College, Oxford

James Mackenzie Fallows^[1] (born August 2, 1949) is an American writer and journalist.^[2] He is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job.^[3][4]

Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and has held the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of eleven books, including National Defense (1981), for which he received the 1983 National Book Award,^[5] Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009),^[6] China Airborne (2012), and the national best-seller Our Towns (2018), which was co-written with his wife, Deborah Fallows, and made into an HBO documentary of the same name in 2021.