Marc Myers


Marc Myers is an American journalist, author, and historian and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, where he writes on music and the arts. In 2007, he founded JazzWax, a top-ranked daily jazz blog that won the 2012, 2015 and 2018 Jazz Journalists Association's "Blog of the Year" award.

Early life

Myers was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York City and Cortlandt Manor, New York. According to his website, he studied journalism at Northeastern University and U.S. history at Columbia University.

Career

''New York Times''

He began his writing career at The New York Times in the late 1970s as a college intern, joining the newspaper full-time in 1980 in the sports department. In 1985 he left to become an associate editor at Adweek, where he wrote about advertising and marketing, helping to launch Brandweek. For a time, he was business editor at Working Woman magazine, where his responsibilities included editing cover business and celebrity profiles, and was editor of Bottom Line/Personal in the 1990s. In February 1999, his essay on President Bill Clinton's luck was published by the New York Times Op-Ed page.

''Wall Street Journal''

Since June 2010, Myers has written for The Wall Street Journal as a contributor on music and the arts, specifically rock, R&B and jazz. He has interviewed more than 1,000 leading artists, musicians and celebrities for the paper. His writes the weekly "House Call" column for the Mansion section and the monthly "Anatomy of a Song" column for the Life & Arts pages. He also writes on architecture and design for the paper, and reviews albums.

JazzWax

Since JazzWax's launch in August 2007, Myers has posted six days a week and has conducted more than 300 multi-part interviews with notable jazz, rock and R&B musicians. He also posts commentary on rare and contemporary jazz, rock and pop recordings, winning three Jazz Journalist Association awards.

Personal life

His mother, Bernice Myers, is a children's book artist and illustrator. His father, Lou Myers, a commercial illustrator, cartoonist and writer, died in 2005. He is married to Alyse Myers, author of Who Do You Think You Are? A Memoir.

Liner notes

Myers has written liner notes for the following albums: