# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-meacham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:10:29.592Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-meacham"
name: "Jon Meacham"
slug: "jon-meacham"
description: "Jon Ellis Meacham is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He is the author of several books. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University."
tagline: "American journalist and biographer (born 1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jon_meacham_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1969-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.56
  momentum:             4.237778167163134
  historical:           6.518369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/jmeacham"
    handle:    "jmeacham"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/meachamjon"
    handle:    "meachamjon"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2168751/"
    handle:    "nm2168751"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://jonmeacham.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Meacham"
    title: "John Meacham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "چون مياتشام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%86%D9%85"
    title: "جان میچم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Meacham"
    title: "Jon Meacham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Meacham"
    title: "Jon Meacham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%86%D9%85"
    title: "جان میچم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6271233"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/219813"
    title: "Jon Meacham"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump