Walter Isaacson
American journalist and biographer of Franklin, Einstein, Jobs, Leonardo, Doudna and Musk.
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- Walter Isaacson (born 20 May 1952) is an American journalist and biographer.
- He was editor of Time, chairman and CEO of CNN, and president and CEO of the Aspen Institute from 2003 to 2018, when he became a professor of history at Tulane University.
- He has been an interviewer on Amanpour & Company on PBS and CNN from 2018.
- His biographies cover Henry Kissinger (1992), Benjamin Franklin (2003), Albert Einstein (2007), Steve Jobs (2011), Leonardo da Vinci (2017), Jennifer Doudna (The Code Breaker, 2021) and Elon Musk (2023); The Greatest Sentence Ever Written followed in 2025.
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- Born
- 20 May 19521
- Career
- Editor of Time; chairman and CEO of CNN; Aspen Institute president and CEO, 2003 to 20181
- Tulane University
- Professor of history, from 2018 (as of 2024)1
- Books
- Benjamin Franklin (2003), Einstein (2007), Steve Jobs (2011), The Innovators (2014), Leonardo da Vinci (2017), The Code Breaker (2021), Elon Musk (2023)1
- Education
- Harvard; Pembroke College, Oxford (Rhodes scholar)1
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