Philip Terzian
Literary Editor
Philip Terzian has been Books & Arts editor since February 2005.

A native of the Washington, DC, area, he has been a journalist since the early 1970s: Reporter and editor at the Anniston (Ala.) Star, Reuters, and US News & World Report; assistant editor of the New Republic; assistant editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times; associate editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald; and editor of the editorial pages at The Providence Journal. During 1978-79 he was a speechwriter for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

For 19 years he wrote a syndicated column, was a Pulitzer finalist for commentary, has reported from a dozen foreign countries, and been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Harper's, The American Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. He has been a Pulitzer juror and media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

Married, and the father of two, he lives in Fairfax County, Virginia.

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