Philip Terzian

Philip Terzian (born 1950) is an American journalist and has been Literary Editor of The Weekly Standard in Washington, D.C. since February 2005.

A native of Kensington, Maryland, Terzian graduated from Villanova University with a degree in English in 1973 and has done graduate work at Oxford University and the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia.

He worked as a reporter and editor at The Anniston Star in Alabama, Reuters and U.S. News & World Report. During 1974-78 he was assistant editor of The New Republic. He was associate editor of the Lexington Herald in Kentucky, assistant editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, and during 1986-92, was editor of the editorial pages at the Providence Journal. From 1978-79 he was a speechwriter for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

For two decades before joining The Weekly Standard, Terzian wrote a column syndicated by the Scripps Howard News Service, and reported from a dozen foreign countries. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Distinguished Commentary, a Pulitzer Prize juror, and has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has been a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Harper's, The American Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. A former member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he is a member of the American Council on Germany and the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.

Married to Grace Paine Terzian, and the father of two, he lives in Oakton, Virginia.