Philip Terzian Biography
Philip Terzian is a journalist and novelist from the United States. He has been a contributing writer for The Washington Examiner since 2018. He previously worked as a reporter and editor for The Anniston Star in Alabama, Reuters, and US News & World Report.
Philip Terzian Age
He was born Philip Henry Terzian on July 5, 1950, in Kensington, Maryland, United States of America. Philip is 73 years old as of July 2023.
Philip Terzian Education
Terzian attended public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, and the Sidwell Friends School in Washington before graduating from Villanova University with a degree in English in 1973. He studied at Oxford University under H.C.G. Mathew, the editor of William Gladstone’s diaries, and received a diploma in theological studies from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia.
Philip Terzian Family
Terzian is a native of Kensington, Maryland, and the son of attorney and probate court judge Louise (Anderson) Terzian and microbiologist L. A. Terzian. Cecil Whitaker Anderson, his maternal grandpa, was an executive at American Stores in Philadelphia. His father’s parents were Armenian immigrants.
Philip Terzian Wife- Spouse
Philip has been married to his wife Grace Barrett Paine, since October 20, 1979, together they have two children William Thomas Hillman, M.D. and Grace Benedict Paine Terzian Emanuel.
Terzian Career
Prior to its closure in December 2018, he was Senior Writer at The Weekly Standard, a political and cultural journal founded in 1995, where he also served as Literary Editor from 2005 to 2017. Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century (Encounter Books, 2010) is his book. He formerly worked as a reporter and editor for The Anniston Star in Alabama, Reuters, and US News & World Report. He was The New Republic’s assistant editor from 1974 until 1978. He worked as an associate editor at the Lexington Herald in Kentucky, as an assistant editor on the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times, and as editor of the editorial pages at the Providence Journal from 1986 to 1992.
In 1970, he worked as a speechwriter for Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O’Brien. He later wrote speeches for US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (1978-1979). Terzian worked for the Scripps Howard News Service for two decades before joining The Weekly Standard, writing a syndicated column and reporting from dozens of nations. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Distinguished Commentary, a Pulitzer Prize juror, and a media fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has written for journals such as the Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Harper’s, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Sunday Telegraph, Commentary, the Sewanee Review, and others. A former American Society of Newspaper Editors member, he is a member of the American Council on Germany and the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
Philip Terzian Net Worth
Terzian has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.
