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 more than 50 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. This weekend, we recall Martin Luther King, Jr. with a federal holiday signed into law in 1983, first observed three years later and, after some resistance, observed by all 50 states since 2000. It is celebrated this year on Jan. 21, six days after his actual birthday. But before the U.S. … READ MORE
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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
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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