Von Drehle returned to The Washington Post in 2017 as a twice-weekly opinion columnist. That article won the Deadline Award for Best Magazine Feature of 2015. Notable examples include the 2008 Person of the Year ( Barack Obama) a cover piece on controversial commentator Glenn Beck titled "Mad Man" that appeared in the Septemissue coverage of the deaths of Michael Jackson and Osama bin Laden the 2014 Person of the Year (Ebola Fighters) and a magazine-length essay on forgiveness after the murders at Emanuel A.M.E. He went on to write more than 60 cover stories while at Time. By his own admission in an article in National Journal, Von Drehle says, "I like to change gears every four or five years." ĭavid Von Drehle left The Washington Post in 2006 to become Editor-at-Large for Time. He went on to be the editor of the Arts section, and the Assistant Managing Editor in charge of the Style section. Within months, he was sent to New Hampshire to cover the 1992 presidential primary, thus beginning his career as a political writer. In 1991, Von Drehle became the New York bureau chief for The Washington Post. During his tenure with the Miami Herald, von Drehle also received an American Society of News Editors Distinguished Writing Award, and has subsequently been featured in ASNE's collections of America's Best Newspaper Writing. The piece also garnered Von Drehle the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for excellence in Media and the Arts in 1989. He was 27 at the time of the award, the youngest of the three journalists recognized that year. Von Drehle was honored for a series titled "The Death Penalty: A Failure of Execution". In 1988 while writing for the Miami Herald Von Drehle was awarded a Livingston Award, which recognizes excellence in young journalism and is given annually to journalist younger than 35 years of age. From there he moved on to the Miami Herald in 1985 and stayed on with the paper until 1991 as a staff writer and New York Correspondent. Von Drehle started his career in journalism at 17 years old, working with The Denver Post as a sports writer from 1978 to 1983, where he was the youngest sports writer that the paper has had. They moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where they currently reside with their four children. In 1995 he married Karen Ball, the White House correspondent for the New York Daily News. In 1985 Von Drehle graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master of Letters as a Marshall Scholar in English literature.
in 1983 from the University of Denver, where he was also a Boettcher Foundation Scholar and editor of the Denver Clarion, the student newspaper.
Von Drehle was born in Denver, Colorado, and raised in Aurora, Colorado. David James Von Drehle (born February 6, 1961) is an American author and journalist.
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