Garrett Graff

Garrett M. Graff
Born1981 (age 43–44)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
OccupationJournalist
Spouse
Katherine Frances Birrow
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(m. 2013)​

Garrett M. Graff (born 1981) is an American journalist and author. He is a former editor of Politico Magazine,[1] editor-in-chief of Washingtonian magazine in Washington, D.C., and instructor at Georgetown University in the Master's in Professional Studies Journalism and Public Relations program.

Life

Graff was born in 1981 and raised in Montpelier, Vermont. As an undergraduate at Harvard College, Graff was an editor of The Harvard Crimson.[2] He also held internships at ABC News' Political Unit and Atlantic Monthly.[3] He served as deputy national press secretary on Howard Dean's presidential campaign; he helped create and maintain Dean's website.[4]

He later took a job as the Vice President of Communications at EchoDitto, Inc. a Washington, D.C.–based technology consulting firm.[5] Graff also ran FishbowlDC for the blog Mediabistro. In 2005, Graff became the first blogger to receive credentials to cover the White House.[6] Graff serves on the board of the Burlington Housing Authority [7]

Graff and Katherine Frances Birrow were married in Barnard, Vermont, in 2013.[8]

Works

  • Angel Is Airborne: JFK's Final Flight from Dallas. 2003. ISBN 9781940914008. Ebook.
  • The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 2007. ISBN 9780374155032. OCLC 474017210.
  • The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2011. ISBN 9780316068611. OCLC 696603476.
  • Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself—While the Rest of Us Die. Simon & Schuster. 2017. ISBN 9781508237877. OCLC 980878943.[9][10] About Raven Rock Mountain Complex.
  • Carlin, John P.; Graff, Garrett M. (2018). Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat (First ed.). New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1541773837. OCLC 1041249829.
  • The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11. Avid Reader Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-5011-8220-4.[11]
  • Watergate: A New History. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. 2022. ISBN 9781982139162.
  • UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. 2023. ISBN 9781982196776. OCLC 1407420009.
  • When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. 2024. ISBN 9781668027813. OCLC 1435618786.

References

  1. ^ Beaujon, Andrew (October 30, 2015). "Garrett Graff Leaves Politico, Will Return to Vermont". Washingtonian. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  2. ^ "Garrett M. Graff". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  3. ^ "Author Profiles: Garrett M. Graff". Washingtonian. Retrieved August 13, 2009.
  4. ^ Kurtz, Howard (October 25, 2009). "Media Notes: Garrett Graff, part editor, part rocket, takes the helm at Washingtonian magazine". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  5. ^ "FishbowlDC is written by Garrett Graff". MediaBistro. January 26, 2005. Archived from the original on February 21, 2006.
  6. ^ Seeyle, Katharine (March 7, 2005). "White House Approves Pass for Blogger". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  7. ^ "Burlington Housing Authority Mum on Leadership Shuffle".
  8. ^ Katherine Birrow, Garrett Graff Sept. 8, 2013
  9. ^ "In the Event of Attack, Here's How the Government Plans 'To Save Itself'". Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  10. ^ Vogt, Justin (2017-06-16). "How Washington Planned for a Cold-War Apocalypse". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  11. ^ Pignataro, Juliana Rose (3 October 2019). "21 Books to Curl Up With This Fall". Newsweek.


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