Charles Kaiser

CHARLES KAISER is a former reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and a former press critic for News-week. He has also written for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Gardian (London), New York magazine, and Vanity Fair, among others. He is the author of 1968 in America (1988) and The Gay Metropolis (1997), a history of gay life in America that won the Lambda Literary Award and was a New York Times Notable Book.

Kaiser is a founder and former president of the New York chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton, where he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism.