Sir Harold Evans
Legendary publisher, editor and best-selling author of They Made America
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Sir Harold Evans, Editor at Large of The Week Magazine, is the author of the critically acclaimed They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators. Evans was the President and Publisher of Random House trade group from 1990-1997. From 1997-1999 he was Editorial Director and Vice Chairman of U.S. News & World Report, the New York Daily News, The Atlantic Monthly and Fast Company, a position from which he resigned in January 2000 to begin full-time work on two major writing and television projects following up on the success of The American Century, the first in a trilogy that includes the recent They Made America. Evans remains a Contributing Editor at U.S. News & World Report.
They Made America, the product of four years of labor, is an original and fascinating account of the people who have created our modern world - the innovators, from the steam engine to the search engine. A major 4-part documentary series based on the book, for which Evans wrote the scripts and was the featured commentator, was produced by WGBH and premiered on PBS in November 2004. They Made America and The American Century (a lavishly illustrated political history from 1880 to the millennium) are two parts of a trilogy. The final book of the trilogy will be We the People, covering the period from the Revolution to 1889, and is a prequel to The American Century.
Evans was the guest curator of the recent "War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict" exhibit at the Freedom Forum, and wrote the accompanying catalogue. He has recently updated and adapted the catalogue into a book: War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict From the Crimea to Iraq.
Drawing from the highly-praised They Made America and using the fascinating, extraordinary and inspiring stories of America's greatest innovators, known and unknown, Evans discusses the practical applications of revolutionary ideas in modern business. In a lively and entertaining presentation, he outlines the business lessons to be gleaned from past innovators and discusses the sensible values behind positive change. Innovation and freedom, says Evans, are the keys to America's past, and its future.
Evans is currently broadcasting a weekly program called A Point of View on BBC Radio 4, in which he hopes to discuss "an accurate picture of the America I know."
Before moving to the United States in 1984, Evans was the prize-winning editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and editor of The Times from 1981 to 1982. His account of these years was published in the #1 best-selling book Good Times, Bad Times. In 2002, British journalists overwhelmingly voted Harold Evans the all-time greatest British newspaper editor. The International Press Institute, an organization of editors, in 2000 named Evans one of fifty world press heroes in its celebration of 50 years of work defending the freedom of the press around the world.
Following his arrival in the U.S., he was appointed editorial director of U.S. News & World Report, then founded Conde Nast Traveler magazine.
Evans is a renowned authority on photojournalism. In 1999, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center of Photography.
Evans was honored with a knighthood in the Queen's 2004 New Year's Honors list for services to journalism. He lives in New York City with his wife, Tina Brown, a former editor of the New Yorker, and now Washington Post columnist and CNBC host of Topic A. They have two teenage children.
Interested in booking Sir Harold Evans to speak at your next event?
They Made America, the product of four years of labor, is an original and fascinating account of the people who have created our modern world - the innovators, from the steam engine to the search engine. A major 4-part documentary series based on the book, for which Evans wrote the scripts and was the featured commentator, was produced by WGBH and premiered on PBS in November 2004. They Made America and The American Century (a lavishly illustrated political history from 1880 to the millennium) are two parts of a trilogy. The final book of the trilogy will be We the People, covering the period from the Revolution to 1889, and is a prequel to The American Century.
Evans was the guest curator of the recent "War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict" exhibit at the Freedom Forum, and wrote the accompanying catalogue. He has recently updated and adapted the catalogue into a book: War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict From the Crimea to Iraq.
Drawing from the highly-praised They Made America and using the fascinating, extraordinary and inspiring stories of America's greatest innovators, known and unknown, Evans discusses the practical applications of revolutionary ideas in modern business. In a lively and entertaining presentation, he outlines the business lessons to be gleaned from past innovators and discusses the sensible values behind positive change. Innovation and freedom, says Evans, are the keys to America's past, and its future.
Evans is currently broadcasting a weekly program called A Point of View on BBC Radio 4, in which he hopes to discuss "an accurate picture of the America I know."
Before moving to the United States in 1984, Evans was the prize-winning editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and editor of The Times from 1981 to 1982. His account of these years was published in the #1 best-selling book Good Times, Bad Times. In 2002, British journalists overwhelmingly voted Harold Evans the all-time greatest British newspaper editor. The International Press Institute, an organization of editors, in 2000 named Evans one of fifty world press heroes in its celebration of 50 years of work defending the freedom of the press around the world.
Following his arrival in the U.S., he was appointed editorial director of U.S. News & World Report, then founded Conde Nast Traveler magazine.
Evans is a renowned authority on photojournalism. In 1999, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center of Photography.
Evans was honored with a knighthood in the Queen's 2004 New Year's Honors list for services to journalism. He lives in New York City with his wife, Tina Brown, a former editor of the New Yorker, and now Washington Post columnist and CNBC host of Topic A. They have two teenage children.
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