Jon Meacham is an American writer, reviewer, historian, and presidential biographer. He currently serves as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral, a role he has held since November 2021. Meacham also holds the Carolyn T.
and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. In 2009, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his work, *American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House*.