David Owen (author)


David Owen is an American journalist and author.

Education

David Owen grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated from The Pembroke-Country Day School in 1973. He attended Colorado College before transferring to Harvard University, where he was an editor of The Harvard Lampoon, as was his future wife, Ann Hodgman. He graduated from Harvard in 1978 with a degree in English.

Journalism

Owen has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1991 and a contributing editor of Golf Digest since 1995; previously he was a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a senior writer for Harper's Magazine. For six years he was a regular columnist for Home magazine. He was also a contributing editor and columnist for Spy.
Owen won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1984 to research and write about standardized testing in the American education system.

Personal life

Owen lives in Washington, Connecticut with his wife, Ann Hodgman. They have two adult children, both writers: Laura Hazard Owen and John Bailey Owen.

Works

BooksHigh School: Undercover with the Class of '80 None of the Above: Behind the Myth of Scholastic Aptitude The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning: And Other Adventures in American Enterprise The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works My Usual Game; Adventures in Golf Lure of the Links: Great Golf Stories, an Anthology Around the House: Reflections on Life Under a Roof The Complete Office Golf The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness Hit & Hope: How the Rest of Us Play Golf The First National Bank of Dad: The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg - Chester Carlson and the Birth of Xerox Sheetrock and Shellac: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Art and Science of Home Improvement Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
Essays and reporting