Alma mater Harvard University Education Harvard University Spouse Cokie Roberts (m. 1966) | Role Journalist Name Steven Roberts Children Rebecca Roberts | |
Born February 11, 1943 (age 81) ( 1943-02-11 ) Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S. Occupation journalist, writer, political commentator Relatives twin Marc J. Roberts (deceased) Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (brother-in-law)
Barbara Boggs Sigmund (sister-in-law)
Hale Boggs (father-in-law)
Lindy Boggs (mother-in-law)
Daniel J. Hartman (son-in-law)
William Robertson Boggs (brother-in-law, deceased)
six grandchildren
Paul Sigmund, Jr. (nephew-in-law)
David Sigmund (nephew-in-law)
Stephen Sigmund (nephew-in-law)
William C. C. Claiborne (ancestor-in-law)
DeLesseps Story Morrison (second cousin, once removed-in-law) Books My fathers' houses, From Every End of This Earth Similar People Cokie Roberts, Rebecca Roberts, Lindy Boggs, Hale Boggs | ||
Steven v roberts 2010 national book festival
Steven V. Roberts (born February 11, 1943) is an American journalist, writer, political commentator.
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Life and career
Roberts was born to secular Jewish parents in Bayonne, New Jersey, and graduated from Bayonne High School. He attended Harvard University, where he served as editor of the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. After graduating with a B.A. in Government in 1964, Roberts was hired by The New York Times as research assistant to James Reston, then the paper's Washington, D.C. bureau chief. He was a senior writer at U.S. News & World Report for seven years where he is now a contributing editor. As a Washington pundit, Roberts appears regularly on ABC Radio, Washington Week in Review, CNN, Hardball with Chris Matthews. He often fills in as substitute host of The Diane Rehm Show on NPR (National Public Radio). He also appears regularly on America Abroad. Roberts has taught journalism and political communication at The George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs since 1997.
Roberts and his wife, Cokie Roberts, write a nationally syndicated newspaper column and are contributing writers for USA Weekend, a Sunday magazine that appears in 500 newspapers nationwide. In February 2000 they jointly published From This Day Forward. They have two children, Lee and Rebecca, and six grandchildren.