Karl E. Meyer

Meyer was born in Madison, Wisconsin. His career in journalism began while as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During his junior year, he became the editor of The Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper, while serving as the campus correspondent of the Milwaukee Journal. During his senior year, he edited the university literary magazine, The Athenaean. He received his MPA (Master of Public Affairs) from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. After being awarded a Proctor Fellowship, he earned a Ph.D. (in politics), also from Princeton University. == Career ==

After graduation in 1956, his career in foreign affairs began for The Washington Post. After his retirement from the Times, Meyer became editor of the World Policy Journal, published quarterly by the World Policy Institute, a position he held until 2008, when he became editor emeritus. Meyer was a visiting professor at Yale University, Tufts University's Fletcher School, Bard College, and the McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton. He was a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford and fellow of Green College, Oxford University, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Davenport College, Yale. He served as judge for the Peabodys, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Arnold Toynbee History Prize. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association. == Works ==

• with Shareen Blair Brysac.''The China Collectors: America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures''. New York: St Martin's Press, 2015. • with Shareen Blair Brysac. Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds. New York: Public Affairs, 2012. • with Shareen Blair Brysac. Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East. New York: Norton, 2008. • The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland. New York: Public Affairs, 2003. • with Shareen Blair Brysac. Tournament of Shadows: The Race for Empire in Central Asia. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1999. • Pundits, Poets and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. • The Art Museum: Power, Money, Ethics: a Twentieth Century Fund Report. New York: Morrow, 1979. • Teotihuacan. New York: Newsweek, 1973. . • The Plundered Past. New York: Atheneum, 1973. • The Pleasures of Archaeology: A Visa to Yesterday. New York: Atheneum, 1970. • Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker. Washington, DC: R. B. Luce, 1963. • with Tad Szulc. The Cuban Invasion: The Chronicle of a Disaster. New York: Praeger, 1962. • The New America: Politics and Society in the Age of the Smooth Deal. New York: Basic Books, 1961. ==Personal life==

Meyer married Shareen Blair Brysac, with whom he co-authored four books. He had two sons and a daughter. ==References==