Philip Terzian
| Philip Henry Terzian | |
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 Philip Terzian |
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| Born | July 5, 1950 Kensington, Maryland |
| Residence | Oakton, Virginia |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Ethnicity | Armenian American |
| Education | Villanova University B.A. 1973 (English) Christ Church, Oxford postgrad Modern History, 1976 Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia, Diploma in Theological Studies, 1995 |
| Employer | Weekly Standard |
| Title | Literary Editor |
| Political party | Republican |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
| Spouse | Grace Barrett Paine, Oct. 20, 1979 |
| Children | William Thomas Hillman Grace Benedict Paine |
| Parents | L. A. and Louise (Anderson) Terzian |
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| Philip Terzian | |
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Philip Terzian (born 1950) is an American journalist and has been Literary Editor of The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine in Washington, D.C. since February 2005. He is the author of Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century (Encounter Books 2010).
A native of Kensington, Maryland, Terzian was graduated from Villanova University with a degree in English in 1973. He did graduate work at Oxford University under Colin Matthew, and earned a diploma at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia.[1][2]
He worked as a reporter and editor at The Anniston Star in Alabama, Reuters and U.S. News & World Report. During 1974-78 he was assistant editor of The New Republic. He was associate editor of the Lexington Herald in Kentucky, assistant editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, and during 1986-92, was editor of the editorial pages at the Providence Journal.
In 1970 he was a speechwriter for Lawrence O'Brien, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He later wrote speeches (1978–79) for U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.
For two decades before joining The Weekly Standard, Terzian wrote a column syndicated by the Scripps Howard News Service, and reported from a dozen foreign countries. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Distinguished Commentary, a Pulitzer Prize juror, and has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has been a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Harper's, The American Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. A former member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he is a member of the American Council on Germany and the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Philip Henry Terzian." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Document Number: K2016161736. Fee via Fairfax County Public Library, accessed 2010-08-29.
- ^ a b c "Philip Terzian Facebook profile". Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/philipterzian. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
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