Background
Neal Stuart Karlen was born on June 25, 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Son of Markle and Charlotte Hope (Greenfield) Karlen.
Neal Stuart Karlen was born on June 25, 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Son of Markle and Charlotte Hope (Greenfield) Karlen.
He received his Bachelor in American Civilization (magna cum laude) from Brown University in 1982.
Karlen was a reporter and staff writer at Newsweek, New York City from 1982 until 1986. Then he was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, New York City from 1986 to 1991, a freelance contributor to Washington Post, Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Spy, since 1986. Thereafter Karlen was on-air essayist at Columbia Broadcasting System News/America Tonight, New York City in 1990. He also worked as a columnist at Minneapolis-St. Paul magazine, Minneapolis since 1990. Since 1992 he was a contract writer at New York Times.
He has been a member of Phi Beta Kappa.