Jon Meacham is an American historian and presidential biographer, best known for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His other books include American Struggle and Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. He is a former executive editor at Random House and former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, and he writes for The New York Times Book Review. Since 2021 he has been Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral.
