Graydon Carter has been editor of Vanity Fair since July 1992.  He has won ten National Magazine Awards, including two for general excellence for magazines with circulation of more than one million, the highest honor in magazine publishing. Mr. Carter has been named Advertising Age's editor of the year and is the first editor ever to be twice named Adweek magazine's editor of the year.

Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Mr. Carter was the editor of The New York Observer, which he completely revamped, making it the paper it is today.  He came to The New York Observer from Spy, which he co-founded in 1986. He worked as a staff writer for Time, where he covered business, law, and entertainment for five years before joining Life as a staff writer in 1983.

Mr. Carter was an executive producer of 9/11, the highly acclaimed film about the World Trade Center attacks, which aired on CBS.  Mr. Carter received an Emmy Award for 9/11 as well as a Peabody Award.  He also produced the acclaimed documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture.

Mr. Carter is the author of What We've Lost (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, September 2004), a comprehensive critical examination of the Bush administration.  And he is the author, with Kurt Andersen and George Kalogerakis, of Spy: The Funny Years (Miramax, 2006). He edited the best-selling Vanity Fair's Hollywood (Viking Studio, October 2000), as well as Oscar Night (Knopf, October 2004).

Born in Toronto, Canada, Mr. Carter resides in Manhattan with his wife, Anna.  He has four children.