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Eugene L. Meyer

Author & Journalist

  • HISTORY
    "A historical memory that never seems to fade, a passion for justice and a gift for storytelling, Gene is always a must read.”

    Courtland Milloy
    Washington Post columnist
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  • TRAVEL
    "Gene Meyer is one of the finest journalists to come out of the Ben Bradlee era at The Washington Post. He has the highest standards and practices aggressive but compassionate storytelling."

    Bob Woodward
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  • ARTICLES
    “Gene is an author and journalist whose writing is often elegiac, always compelling. His range is wide, his insights keen, and, with his eclectic interests, he informs and entertains his readers with his stories about the past and present...”

    Kitty Kelley, celebrity biographer

About Gene Meyer

Eugene L. Meyer is an award-winning veteran journalist with eclectic interests but special passions for history, lifestyles, travel, real estate and the Chesapeake Bay. He has been widely published in magazines, authored three books and was for many years a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. Since leaving the Post in 2004, Meyer has garnered more than a dozen awards for his work, and has had some 60 bylines in The New York Times. His first journalism job was as Washington bureau librarian for the old New York Herald Tribune, where he got to tag along with a White House reporter and watch the 1964 Civil Rights Act being signed into law. LEARN MORE

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In the News

Meyer was humbled and proud to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in May from the Washington Independent Review of Books for his many years of service to the organization and for his years of journalism. On June 29, he received yet another journalism award — his fourth this year and his 15th since leaving the Washington Post in 2004 – for an article in Bethesda Magazine full of insider details about Marriott’s decision to build its new corporate headquarters in Maryland and in Bethesda. The award was his fourth from the National Association of Real Estate Editors since 2013. In 2016, NAREE gave him awards for the Best Freelance Collection, and also for the best commercial real estate stories.

FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army won the 2019 award for Outstanding Biography/History from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. “Meyer’s impressive research turned up never-before-revealed stories about five African American men whom history has ignored — until now,” the judges said.

Meyer also won the award for the Outstanding Blog Post: “Pittsburgh: Never Again? Just Words,” which appeared on this website in November 2018. The judges said “Meyer thoughtfully compared past pogroms to the Tree of Life synagogue shooting…”

ICYMI, listen to @kojoshow as I talk about my book FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army. The program aired on WAMU-FM, DC’s NPR station. https://lnkd.in/d3-Qsmv 

In 2016, Meyer won the best profile award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Best Collection of Work by an Individual—Commercial Real Estate, for New York Times articles, from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

Next Project

I am resuming work on a memoir of my many decades as an eyewitness to years of protest, days of rage as a reporter in turbulent times.

My most  recent book, “Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army,” continues to attract attention. Since it’s publication last June, I have appeared at 28 events, and several more are scheduled into October. It is a story from the past that resonates in the present. It is an American story. It is our story. The publisher is Lawrence Hill Books http://bit.ly/2detlp8, an imprint of Chicago Review Press.

 

Latest Blog Post

FIVE FOR FREEDOM: THE NEW PODCAST

Eighteen months after publication of FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army, the book tour continues! In late September, I was interviewed by Sonja Williams, an award-winning writer and producer of documentaries and  professor of communications at Howard University, … READ MORE

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