Charles M. Blow is an accomplished author, journalist, cultural critic, and political commentator. He is the inaugural Langston Hughes Fellow at Harvard University.
Mr. Blow previously served as a longtime Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times and was a political analyst for MSNBC. He also hosted PRIME with Charles Blow on the Black News Channel.
He is the author of the New York Times bestselling books Fire Shut Up in My Bones and The Devil You Know. Fire… has been adapted into an opera scheduled to premiere at the Metropolitan Opera later this year, marking the first opera by a Black composer in the institution’s history. The Devil… has been transformed into a feature-length documentary airing on HBO. Currently, he is working on a book about political appeasement.
In 2016, Mr. Blow served as a Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale University, where he taught a seminar on media and politics, tracking the presidential race in real time.
His career includes roles such as art director of National Geographic magazine in 2006 and work at The Detroit News prior to joining The New York Times.
Mr. Blow graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in mass communications from Grambling State University in Louisiana. He also holds honorary doctorates from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and the Metropolitan College of New York. He resides in Atlanta and has three adult children.