Jeffrey Kluger
Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954) is an American editor at large at Time magazine and author of many books on science, space, and everyday life. His books include The Narcissist Next Door (2014); Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (2005); The Sibling Effect (2011); and Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (1994). Lost Moon, co-written with Jim Lovell, became the basis for the 1995 film Apollo 13. He has also written two young adult novels—Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats (2007) and Freedom Stone (2011)—and Holdout (2021), his first adult novel.
Kluger was born into a Jewish family and grew up in Maryland. He attended Pikesville High School, earned a BA in political science from the University of Maryland in 1976, and a JD from the University of Baltimore Law School in 1979. He is a licensed attorney, admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.
His journalism career began at Discover magazine, where he wrote the humor column Light Elements from 1987 to 1996. He also worked for The New York Times Business World Magazine, Family Circle, Science Digest, and The Soho Weekly News. He joined Time magazine in 1996, was named a senior writer in 1998, and Editor at Large in 2014. He has written more than 45 Time cover stories, covering topics from the Mars Pathfinder landing to the Fukushima disaster and the fight to eradicate polio, as well as advances in caring for premature babies.
Kluger and Michael Lemonick won the Overseas Press Club’s Whitman Bassow Award in 2001 for best reporting on international environmental issues for their work on global warming. He has taught journalism at New York University and served as a technical consultant for Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience.
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