1. Edward Graydon Carter, CM was born on July 14,1949 and is a Canadian journalist who was the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 until 2017.
18 Facts About Graydon Carter
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Graydon Carter co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986.
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In 1973, Graydon Carter co-founded The Canadian Review, a monthly general interest magazine.
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In 1978, Graydon Carter moved to the United States and began working for Time as a writer-trainee, where he met Kurt Andersen.
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Graydon Carter spent five years writing for Time on the topics of business, law, and entertainment before moving to Life in 1983.
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Graydon Carter was then editor at The New York Observer before being invited by Vanity Fair to take over for Tina Brown, who left for The New Yorker.
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Graydon Carter became editor of Vanity Fair in July 1992.
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Graydon Carter is the author of What We've Lost, a comprehensive critical examination of the Bush administration.
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On September 7,2017, Graydon Carter announced his departure from the editorship of Vanity Fair.
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Graydon Carter was on gardening leave until the end of 2017.
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In 2019, Graydon Carter co-launched a weekly newsletter with Alessandra Stanley called Air Mail.
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Graydon Carter was a producer of I'll Eat You Last, a one-woman play starring Bette Midler, about legendary Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers.
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Graydon Carter has co-produced two documentaries for HBO, Public Speaking, directed by Martin Scorsese, which spotlights writer Fran Lebowitz, and His Way, about Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub, which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy.
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Graydon Carter was a producer of Chicago 10, a documentary which premiered on the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival in early 2007.
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Graydon Carter was a producer of Surfwise, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007, and Gonzo, a biographical documentary of Hunter S Thompson directed by Alex Gibney.
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Graydon Carter produced the documentary adaptation of the book The Kid Stays in the Picture, about the legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans.
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Graydon Carter is a co-owner of The Waverly Inn at 16 Bank Street in the West Village.
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Graydon Carter published his memoir, When the Going was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, in March 2025.