James Fallows Biography

James Fallows is a staff writer for The Atlantic which he has written for since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States and once worked as President Carter’s chief speechwriter. He has written over ten books including Blind into Baghdad Postcards from Tomorrow Square Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy China Airborne: The Test of China’s Future and Our Towns. Fallows has won the National Magazine Award for his 2002 story Iraq: The Fifty-First State? warning about the consequences of invading Iraq; he has been a finalist four other times. He has also won the American Book Award for nonfiction for his book National Defense and a N.Y. Emmy award for the documentary series Doing Business in China. He was the founding chairman of the New America Foundation. He and his wife Deborah Fallows are the authors of the 2018 book Our Towns: A 100000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America which was a national best-seller and is the basis of a HBO documentary.

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