James Fallows

James Fallows
Speaking at the National Chinese Language Conference in 2010
Born	James Mackenzie Fallows (1949-08-02) August 2, 1949 (age 67) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Education	Bachelor's degree in American history and literature
Alma mater	Harvard University, University of Oxford
Occupation	Journalist
Employer	The Atlantic
Website	http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com

James Mackenzie Fallows (born August 2, 1949) is an American writer and journalist.

He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job.

Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and holds the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of ten books, including National Defense, for which he received the 1983 National Book Award,Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009), and China Airborne (2012).

Fallows was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Jean (née Mackenzie) and James Albert Fallows, a physician. He was raised in Redlands, California, and graduated from Redlands High School. He studied American history and literature at Harvard College, where he was the editor of the daily newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. From 1970–72, Fallows studied economics at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He subsequently worked as an editor and writer for The Washington Monthly and Texas Monthly magazines.