The Talented Joe Klein

JOE KLEIN: The Man Behind the Magazine

Joe joined the TIME Magazine team in January 2003, and he is currently a senior writer for the national magazine.

Joe's column, "In the Arena," appears weekly in TIME Magazine in the "Notebook" section. His writings revolve around national and international affairs. Klein occasionally adds his two cents to The New Yorker where he has been Washington correspondent since 1996. Klein dabbled in television with CBS News (1992-1996) and WGBH-TV Boston (1972). His talent stretched to Rolling Stone from 1975-1980 where he was also the Washington bureau chief from 1975-1977. In the early nineties, Klein had a column in Newsweek called "Public Lives."

Klein earned a degree in American civilization from The University of Pennsylvania. He is a former Guggenheim fellow, and Klein is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His current residence is in Westchester County, New York where he lives with his wife and two sons.

Joe's Published Works:
1.Primary Colors, a novel inspired by the 1992 political race,  was written by Klein as "Anonymous."
2. Last March, Klein published The Natural: Bill Clinton's Misunderstood Presidency.
3. Klein has written two nonfiction books: Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam (1984) and Woody Guthrie: A Life (1980).
4. Klein published The Running Mate in 2000. This was his second political novel.