1. Geoff Edgers is currently the national arts reporter for The Washington Post and was previously a staff arts reporter for The Boston Globe.
19 Facts About Geoff Edgers
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Geoff Edgers's articles have appeared in magazines such as GQ and Wired, and he has worked as a reporter for several newspapers, including the Boston Phoenix, Raleigh News and Observer, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post.
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Geoff Edgers has published children's books on Elvis, the Beatles, and Stan Lee, and co-wrote a book on Julia Child with his wife, Carlene Hempel.
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Geoff Edgers hosted the military history series Secrets of the Arsenal on the American Heroes Channel.
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Geoff Edgers joined The Washington Post in September 2014 as the paper's national arts reporter.
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Geoff Edgers attended Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts and graduated from Tufts University in 1992 with a degree in English.
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Geoff Edgers worked as an arts reporter from 2002 to August 2014 for The Boston Globe.
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Geoff Edgers's work involved covering the Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and other arts-related organizations in the Boston area.
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Geoff Edgers has freelanced for several magazines including GQ, Spin, Wired, and Salon.
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Geoff Edgers teamed up with director Robert Patton-Spruill in early 2008 to begin work on a film about his love of British Invasion band the Kinks, headed by the two feuding brothers Ray and Dave Davies.
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Geoff Edgers meets with various personalities and Kinks fans to discuss the band, such as Sting, Paul Weller, Peter Buck, Zooey Deschanel, Clive Davis, Warren Zanes, Robyn Hitchcock, and Dave Davies himself.
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Geoff Edgers was awarded a New England Emmy in June 2013 for work on a video for The Boston Globe.
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Geoff Edgers wrote and narrated the film and shared directing duties with Darren Durlach.
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Geoff Edgers began his new position as national arts reporter in September 2014.
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Since starting at the Post, Geoff Edgers had written in-depth profiles of Eddie Murphy, David Letterman, Norm Macdonald, Darrell Hammond, Tom Hanks, and Ava DuVernay, as well as lengthy pieces on the history of Run-DMC's "Walk This Way" and a story documenting the mysterious life of a man who stole a Stradivarius violin and virtually disappeared with the instrument.
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In January 2018, Geoff Edgers debuted a new podcast series, Edge of Fame, drawing on his experience as a journalist, documentary film maker, writer, and National Arts Reporter for the Post.
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Each podcast episode focuses on Geoff Edgers shadowing a specific performer for a long period of time.
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Geoff Edgers' book Walk this Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever was published in February 2019, detailing the famous collaboration between rock band Aerosmith and rap duo Run-DMC on their remake of the former's hit, "Walk This Way".
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Geoff Edgers is married to Carlene Hempel, a professor at Northeastern University.