About Me
From the dustjacket of THE BLUE AGE:
GREGG EASTERBROOK is the author of twelve books, most recently It’s Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear. He was a staff writer, national correspondent or contributing editor of The Atlantic for nearly forty years. Easterbrook has written for the New Yorker, Science, Wired, Harvard Business Review, the Washington Monthly, the New Republic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He was a fellow in economics and in government studies at the Brookings Institution. In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
I was born in 1953 in Buffalo, New York, to parents who were naturalized Americans; both my parents were originally Canadian. My mother, Vimy Hoover Easterbrook, who worked as a teacher in the Buffalo public school system, died in 1976. My father, George, a retired dentist, passed away in 2012. I am a graduate of Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
My brother Frank is a federal appeals court judge for the Seventh Circuit, and a professor of law at the University of Chicago. My brother Neil is a professor of English at Texas Christian University. My sister Nancy is a nurse in Knoxville, Tennessee.
My wife, Nan Kennelly, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, works for the Department of State; we’ve lived overseas in Pakistan and Belgium. Right now we live outside Washington, DC. We have three children: boys born in 1989 and 1995 and a girl born in 1990.
In addition to books I’ve written a politics column for Reuters, a science-and-society column for the New Republic, a series of cover stories for Newsweek, and the quirky football-and-society column Tuesday Morning Quarterback for Slate, ESPN.com, NFL.com, the old Weekly Standard and the New York Times.