Charles Kaiser

Charles Kaiser is a former reporter for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and a former press critic for Newsweek. He is the author of 1968 in America (Grove/ Atlantic), one of the most admired popular histories of the music, politics, and culture of the 1960s, now used as a textbook in colleges across the United States, and The Gay Metropolis (Houghton Mifflin and Grove), the landmark history of gay life in America, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award winner. His articles and reviews have also appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, New York, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Guardian (UK), and New Republic, among many other publications.