Primary Job Title Editor Primary Organization Vanity Fair
Gender Male
Graydon Carter has been editor of Vanity Fair since July 1992. A former staff writer for Time and Life, he co-founded Spy magazine and served as the editor of The New York Observer. Under Mr. Carter, Vanity Fair has won 14 National Magazine Awards, including 2 for general excellence. He was named Adweek magazine’s editor of the year in 2015, making
him the only editor ever to win the award three times. He was also recently named to the asme Hall of Fame. The author of What We’ve Lost (2004), he has edited 11 Vanity Fair collections. He was a producer of the hit Broadway play I’ll Eat You Last (2013) and of documentaries including Public Speaking (2010), directed by Martin Scorsese, the Emmy-nominated His Way (2011), and The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002). He was also an executive producer of Everything Is Copy, the 2016 HBO documentary on the late Nora Ephron. His latest documentary, Agnelli, about the Italian industrialist premiered at the Venice Film Festival. He won Emmy and Peabody Awards for the 2002 documentary 9/11, about the World Trade Center attacks, which aired on CBS. In 2014, Carter was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame.
