Geoff Edgers

Geoff Edgers
Edgers at the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Born	1970 Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation	Journalist, author, filmmaker
Nationality	American
Subject	Arts, music, The Kinks
Spouse	Carlene Hempel
Children	Lila and Calvin Hempel-Edgers

Geoff Edgers (born 1970) is an American journalist and writer whose work includes reporting for The Washington Post and The Boston Globe as well as producing and starring in the 2010 music documentary Do It Again. His articles have appeared in magazines such as GQ and Wired, and he has worked as a reporter for several newspapers, including the Boston Phoenix, Raleigh News and Observer, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. Edgers has also published two children's books on Elvis, The Beatles, Stan Lee and contributed to WBUR Boston. In 2013, he hosted a Travel Channel reality TV series called Edge of America, and in June 2013 he was awarded a New England Emmy for work on a video for The Boston Globe. Edgers joined The Washington Post in September 2014 as the paper's national arts reporter and currently hosts the military history series Secrets of the Arsenal on the American Heroes Channel.

Edgers, now the national arts reporter for The Washington Post, attended Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts and graduated from Tufts University in 1992 with a degree in English. Following his graduation he was employed as a reporter by several newspapers, including the Sudbury Town Crier, Waltham News-Tribune, Middlesex News, Boston Phoenix, and Raleigh News and Observer. He worked as an arts reporter from 2002 to August 2014 for The Boston Globe. His work involved covering the Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and other arts-related organizations in the Boston area.