Background
Roberts was born to secular Jewish parents in Bayonne, New Jersey, and graduated from Bayonne High School.
Roberts was born to secular Jewish parents in Bayonne, New Jersey, and graduated from Bayonne High School.
He attended Harvard where he served as editor of the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Government in 1964, Roberts was hired by The New York Times as research assistant to James Reston, then the paper"s Washington, District of Columbia bureau chief He was a senior writer at United States. News & World Report for seven years where he is now a contributing editors As a Washington pundit, Roberts appears regularly on American Broadcasting Company Radio, Washington Week in Review, Cable News Network, Hardball with Chris Matthews.
He often fills in as substitute host of The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio (National Public Radio).
He also appears regularly on America Abroad. Roberts has taught journalism and political communication at The George Washington University"s School of Media and Public Affairs since 1997.
In February 2000 they jointly published From This Day Forward.
Books by Steve Roberts Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families () is his 2011 book authored with his wife Cokie Roberts. From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America, 2009. My Fathers' Houses, 2005. From This Day Forward, (with Cokie Roberts), Morrow, 2000.