Graydon Carter has been editor of Vanity Fair since July 1992. He has won six National Magazine Awards, including two for general excellence for magazines with circulation of more than one million, the highest honor in journalism.

Mr. Carter has been named Advertising Age's editor of the year and is the first editor ever to be named Adweek magazine’s editor of the year twice. In 1999, the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism ranked Vanity Fair the top monthly magazine in America.

Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Mr. Carter was the editor of The New York Observer, which he completely revamped into the paper it is today. He came to The New York Observer from Spy, which he co-founded in 1986. During Mr. Carter’s five-year tenure as co-editor, Spy’s circulation increased sixfold and the magazine was nominated for two National Magazine Awards.

Mr. Carter worked as a staff writer for Time, where he covered business, law, and entertainment for five years before joining Life as a staff writer in 1983.

He was an executive producer of 9/11, the highly acclaimed film by Jules and Gedeon Naudet about the World Trade Center attacks, which aired on CBS. Mr. Carter received an Emmy Award for 9/11 as well as a Peabody Award. He also produced the acclaimed documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, about the legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans, which premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and opened in theaters in July 2002.

In addition, he edited the best-selling Vanity Fair’s Hollywood (Viking Studio, October 2000), a 320-page, $60 coffee-table book that was five years in the making.