Jerry Adler is a former Senior Editor for Newsweek and Yahoo! News. [1] He writes for Smithsonian [2] and Scientific American magazines, [3] International Business Times, [4] The New Yorker, New York, Wired, Scientific American, Smithsonian, The Daily Beast, [5] Esquire, and is the author of High Rise, about the building of a skyscraper, and co-author of The Price of Terror, about the struggle of families of Pan Am 103 victims to get justice after the Lockerbie bombing. In 2009 he originated Newsverse at Newsweek.com, a weekly satirical poem. [6] He appeared on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" to recite one of his poems in 2010.
His articles were twice finalists for National Magazine Awards and won a Sydney Hillman award.
He received his B.A. in American history from Yale University in 1970. [7]