Edward Graydon Carter (born 14 July 1949 in Toronto) is a Canadian-born American journalist and author. He is editor of Vanity Fair. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986.
Carter began his career at Time as a writer-trainee where he met Andersen, and spent five years writing for the magazine in the topics of business, law, and entertainment before moving to Life in 1983. Carter was the...
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Edward Graydon Carter (born 14 July 1949 in Toronto) is a Canadian-born American journalist and author. He is editor of Vanity Fair. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986.
Carter began his career at Time as a writer-trainee where he met Andersen, and spent five years writing for the magazine in the topics of business, law, and entertainment before moving to Life in 1983. Carter was then editor at the New York Observer before being invited to Vanity Fair to take over from Tina Brown, who left for The New Yorker. He has been the editor since July 1992, with successes during his tenure including winning ten National Magazine Awards.
Carter's Vanity Fair has been notable for combining high-profile celebrity cover stories with serious journalism. His often idiosyncratic personal style was depicted in the book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, a book by former Vanity Fair contributing editor Toby Young. Jeff Bridges played...
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