Background
Heilemann, John was born on January 23, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Heilemann, John was born on January 23, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Heilemann holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Political Science from Northwestern University and a master"s degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
He is the co-author (with Mark Halperin) of Double Down and Game Change, books about Presidential campaigns. He and Halperin currently co-host With All Due Respect, a political analysis show on Bloomberg Television and Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company. He previously was a staff writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and The Economist. He is the author of a previous book, Pride Before the Fall, about the Microsoft antitrust case.
He was the host of a four-part documentary series for Discovery called Download: the True Story of the Internet, about the rise of the World Wide Web, which first aired in 2008.