American novelist, writer, and academic Walter Seff Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952. He has served as Time’s editor, CNN’s chair and CEO, and the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C.
He was up in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was a Rhodes Scholar who attended Pembroke College at Oxford and Harvard University.
Where did Walter Isaacson go to college and high school?
He attended Harvard University, where he majored in History and Literature and graduated in 1974, Deep Springs College for the Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP), and Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, where he served as student body president.
Isaacson served as the Signet Society’s president, was a contributor to the Harvard Lampoon, and lived at Lowell House while attending Harvard. Later, he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Pembroke College in Oxford while a Rhodes scholar, earning a First-Class Honours degree.
He is the co-author, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986), as well as the author of Kissinger: A Biography (1992), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), American Sketches (2009), Steve Jobs (2011),
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014), Leonardo da Vinci, and The Innovators: American novelist, writer, and academic Walter Seff Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952. He has served as Time’s editor, CNN’s chair and CEO, and the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C.
