David Plotz Editor, Slate Magazine
David Plotz is editor of Slate. Before joining the magazine in 1996, Plotz was a senior editor and staff writer for the Washington City Paper. Plotz has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, GQ, New Republic and The Washington Post, among other publications. He is the author of “The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, and, most recently, “Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible,” based on his “Blogging the Bible” series for Slate. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, journalist Hanna Rosin, and their three children. |  |