Jann Wenner Biography

Fast Facts

• Rolling Stone has won 14 National Magazine Awards in various categories, including Design, Feature Writing, Reporting, and General Excellence
• Was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and also earned a Lifetime Achievement Award in March 2004
• Was the youngest inductee into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame in 1997
• Attended the University of California at Berkeley, but dropped out in 1967 to start Rolling Stone
• Was only 7 years old when he began writing and editing for a neighborhood newspaper that he created
• Was influential in the career development of writers like Hunter S․ Thompson, Tom Wolfe, P․J․ O'Rourke, and Tim Cahill
• Founded America's first outdoor magazine, Outside, in 1977 and later launched Family Life, a parenting magazine, in 1993
• Best known as the co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine and owner of Men's Journal and Us Weekly
• Was the co-editor of the biography "Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S․ Thompson," published in 2007