- Born
- Birth nameJon Ellis Meacham
- Jon Meacham was born on May 20, 1969 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for The Front Runner (2018), The Legend of Two Presidents (2025) and American Lion. He is married to Margaret Keith Smythe. They have three children.
- SpouseMargaret Keith Smythe(? - present) (3 children)
- Born in Chattanooga, he attended elementary school at Saint Nicholas School, moving to the McCallie School and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and graduating summa cum laude in English Literature; he was salutatorian and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
- Winner of the 2009 "Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography" for his book "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House".
- Lives in New York City with his wife and their three young children.
- Release of his book, "Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship".
- Editor of Newsweek magazine.
- On Charles Ommanney, Newsweek photographer for the White House: To be a photojournalist at the highest levels like that requires a great deal of innate political skill. You have to at once make people so comfortable with you that, at hours of great tension and great trial, they let you into the room. Then, once you have talked your way into the room, you have to disappear. It's a very tricky skill set, Charles has it.
- [on the massacre of four young girls in Birmingham on September 15, 1963] The face of Jesus was blown out of one of the 16th Street Baptist Church's windows during the attack, an eerie and enduring symbol of a world where hate - at least in the moment of the bombing - overshadowed love. Today, a memorial window from the people of Wales depicts a crucified Jesus and a quotation from Matthew 25: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me'. The Jesus in the window is a black man, arms outstretched, reaching, it seems, to a future that is far closer to reality now than appeared possible fifty Septembers ago.
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