Meacham attended The McCallie School, where he developed an interest in the civil rights movement.
He received an invitation to Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration in Washington, D.C., in response to a letter that he sent to the president-elect. As a result, Meacham developed an interest in politics. When he was a child, his grandfather had discussions each morning with a group of men about local and national politics. Meacham and Jean Austin Meacham, raised him after his parents' divorce. His parents are Jere Ellis Meacham (1946–2008), a construction and labor-relations executive who was decorated for valor during the Vietnam War, and Linda (McBrayer) Brodie. Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. Jon Ellis Meacham ( / ˈ m iː tʃ ə m/ born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
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