Marc Leepson Biography
Marc Leepson is the arts editor, senior writer, and columnist for VVA’s national magazine, The VVA Veteran. In 1986, he began his “Arts of War” column in the print edition of the magazine.
Marc Leepson Age
Marc was born on June 20, 1945, in Newark, New Jersey, United States. He is 58 years old as of June 2023.
Marc Leepson Education
Leepson attended Hillside High School in Hillside, New Jersey, and George Washington University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1967 and a Master of Arts in European History in 1971.
Marc Leepson Family
Marc was born and raised, in Newark, New Jersey, United States by his parents, however, he has a brother, R. Evan Leepson.
Marc Leepson Wife-Children
He is married to his wife, Janna (Murphy) Leepson, and has two children, Devin and Cara. Leepson lives in Loudoun County, Virginia with his family.
Marc Leepson Career
He writes and edits the print edition’s “Books in Review” column as well as “Books in Review II” online. After graduating from George Washington University, Leepson was drafted into the United States Army in July 1967. He served in the Vietnam War for two years, including a year with the 527th Personnel Service Company in Qui Nhon from December 1967 to December 1968. Following his honorable discharge, he earned a master’s degree in history from George Washington University. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a staff writer at Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C. He is the author of eight books, including The Webster’s New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War, Saving Monticello, Flag: An American Biography, Desperate Engagement, and What So Proudly We Hailed.
Many journals and newspapers have published his work, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and Smithsonian, Preservation, and Military History magazines. He has appeared on The Today Show, CBS This Morning Saturday, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, PBS-TV’s History Detectives, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Studio 360, NPR’s Here and Now, To The Point, Morning Edition, The Diane Rehm Show, “Imus in the Morning,” the BBC Newshour, Russian Channel 1 TV (RTV), Irish Radio, and CBC (Canada).
He has produced entries for the Encyclopaedia Americana, the Encyclopaedia Americana Yearbook, the Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Political and Legal History, and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, among others. He has been involved in numerous non-profit organizations since the early 1990s. Middleburg (Virginia) Library Advisory Board (President and Vice President), Loudoun County (Virginia) Library Board of Trustees, the Library of Virginia Foundation (Treasurer), the Virginia State Library Board, the Friends of Thomas Balch Library, the YMCA of Loudoun County (Virginia), the Goose Creek Association (Secretary), and the Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area Association (Secretary). He was a history instructor at Lord Fairfax Community College (now Laurel Ridge Community College). A member of The Authors Guild, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Biographers International Organization (BIO) in 2013. He was named the organization’s Treasurer in 2014.
Marc Leepson Net Worth
Leepson has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.