Jon Ellis Meacham is an American writer, historian, and presidential biographer. He is the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral, a position he has held since November 2021. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. Meacham has held several prominent editorial positions throughout his career. He served as executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, and previously as editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He currently contributes to The New York Times Book Review and serves as a contributing editor to Time magazine. He is the author of several books and won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his work American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.