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Professor of History at Tulane University and former editor of TIME, CEO of CNN, and president of the Aspen Institute. Isaacson built his career at the intersection of journalism and storytelling, rising from political correspondent to leading two of America’s most prominent media organizations before turning full-time to biography.
His biographies follow a specific method: pick a figure who reshaped their field, then trace the exact combination of curiosity, obsession, and circumstance that made their breakthroughs possible. The result is a shelf of definitive portraits — Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Jennifer Doudna, Elon Musk — each one revealing how genius actually operates in practice. His work on Doudna’s CRISPR revolution, The Code Breaker, won widespread acclaim for making gene-editing science accessible to general readers.
Isaacson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023. A Rhodes Scholar and Harvard graduate, he brings both institutional credibility and narrative skill to subjects that range from Renaissance art to Silicon Valley engineering to the future of genetic medicine.
