David Von Drehle
Washington Post columnist and editor-at-large whose journalism spans politics, history, and American life across four decades.
About
David Von Drehle is a columnist and editor-at-large at The Washington Post, where he has covered presidential campaigns, the Supreme Court, and American culture for more than thirty years. He is the author of several books of narrative history, including Triangle: The Fire That Changed America and Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year. The Book of Charlie grew out of his friendship with his 109-year-old neighbor Charlie White in Kansas City — a man who had survived the 1918 flu pandemic, the Great Depression, and two world wars, and whose equanimity in the face of loss and change Von Drehle found worth documenting before it was gone.