Charles Kaiser

Charles Kaiser (born 1950) is an American author, journalist and blogger.

His book about one family in the French Resistance, The Cost of Courage (2015) received enthusiastic reviews from The Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor, among many other publications. It also won the grand prize at the Paris Book Festival (2015).

His blog about the media, Full Court Press, originated on the website of Radar Magazine in the fall of 2007. He continued it at the Columbia Journalism Review and the Sidney Hillman Foundation until the spring of 2011.

His main interests include modern French history, The New York Times, torture conducted by the Bush administration,American politics, the French Resistance, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles.

The son of a diplomat, Philip Mayer Kaiser, he grew up in Washington, D.C., Albany, New York, Dakar, Senegal, London, England and Windsor, Connecticut. He has lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for many years.

Kaiser first started writing for The New York Times when he was an undergraduate at Columbia University. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton.

Kaiser is a former reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and a former press critic for Newsweek. He has also written for The Washington Post,the Los Angeles Times,The New York Observer,New York magazine,Vanity Fair, the Columbia Journalism Review, and many other publications.

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