Daniel Okrent

Before his appointment as the Times's first public
editor, Daniel Okrent served in a number of prominent
positions in magazine publishing, among them editor-at-large
of Time Inc., managing editor of Life, and editor of
New England Monthly. He is the author of four books,
most recently Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller
Center, which was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize
in history. Okrent lives in New York and on Cape Cod with
his wife, poet Rebecca Okrent.