The Only Plane in the Sky
Garrett M. Graff | |
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| Born | Template:Birth year and age Montpelier, Vermont, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Author, journalist, professor |
| Known for | Editor at Politico Magazine; editor-in-chief of Washingtonian; teaching at Georgetown University |
Garrett M. Graff (born 1981) is a distinguished American author and journalist. He previously held the position of editor at Politico Magazine, served as editor-in-chief of the Washingtonian based in Washington, D.C., and currently teaches within the Master's program for Professional Studies in Journalism and Public Relations at Georgetown University.
Life
Born in 1981, Graff grew up in Montpelier, Vermont. During his time at Harvard College, he contributed as an editor to The Harvard Crimson and completed internships with ABC News' Political Unit as well as with Atlantic Monthly. He played a role as deputy national press secretary during Howard Dean's presidential campaign, where he was instrumental in creating Dean's campaign website.
Following this, Graff took on the role of Vice President of Communications at EchoDitto, Inc., a technology consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. He managed FishbowlDC for the blog Mediabistro and made history in 2005 as the first blogger granted credentials to report from the White House. Additionally, he contributes as a board member for the Burlington Housing Authority.
In 2013, Graff wed Katherine Frances Birrow in Barnard, Vermont.
Works
- Angel Is Airborne: JFK's Final Flight from Dallas (Ebook, 2003)
- The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007)
- The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror (Little, Brown and Company, 2011)
- Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself—While the Rest of Us Die (Simon & Schuster, 2017) – Focused on Raven Rock Mountain Complex
- John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff, Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat (PublicAffairs, 2018)
- The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Avid Reader Press, 2019)
- Watergate: A New History (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2022)
- UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2023)
- When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2024)
- Life Became Very Blurry: An Oral History of COVID-19 in Vermont (Vermont Historical Society, 2025)
- The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2025)
External links
- Short description with empty Wikidata description
- 1981 births
- Living people
- American bloggers
- The Harvard Crimson people
- Georgetown University faculty
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American journalists
- 21st-century American male writers
- American male non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American male journalists
- Avid Reader Press books