John Heilemann

John Heilemann is a contributing editor at New York Magazine, where he writes The Power Grid column on national politics, business, and their intersection. He is the author of “Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and End of the Microsoft Era” and a National Magazine Award finalist for his reporting on the Microsoft antitrust case. He is currently at work on a book about the 2008 presidential campaign.

A former staff writer for The Economist, The New Yorker, and Wired, his work has appeared as well in Vanity Fair, GQ, Time, and Business 2.0. He appears regularly on The Chris Matthews Show, Charlie Rose, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and other national television programs. His four-part documentary on the rise of the Web appeared last winter on the Discovery Channel.