Jay Winik

Jay Winik is one of the nation’s leading public historians, an acclaimed best-selling writer, a popular public speaker, and a frequent television and radio guest. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling April 1865. It was the focus of major media attention and made into an Emmy nominated TV special watched by more than 50 million people on the History Channel. He is also the author of the much acclaimed New York Times bestsellers, The Great Upheaval as well as 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History.

He is the on-air Fox News Presidential Historian for such major events as the presidential inaugurations for Donald Trump and Barack Obama. He is an Advisor for the start-up newsmagazine, Franknews; he is also their Columnist and Historian in Residence. He was until recently the Inaugural Historian-in-Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations. At the invitation of the Librarian of Congress, he was interviewed by noted philanthropist David Rubenstein in January 2017 about 1944 before 250 Members of Congress. The US Holocaust Museum built a special event around the book. The Senate majority leader also invited Winik to talk about 1944 with the Senate leadership. Winik has been a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Times, and other numerous major publications.

Represented by Michael Carlisle and the Harry Walker Speakers Bureau, Jay Winik is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is an elected Fellow of the Society of American Historians, and served or serves on the Governing Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the boards for American Heritage magazine, Ford's Theatre, the Lincoln Legacy Project, the journal World Affair, the Civil War Preservation Trust, The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and the Potomac School. He has a BA and PhD from Yale University, and an MSc with distinction from the London School of Economics.