John Dickerson

Birth Name:

John Dickerson

Birth Place:

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Earned his B․A․ in English and American studies at the University of Virginia
Lived in Merrywood as a child, the Georgian-style mansion where Jacqueline Kennedy grew up
He and his brother would explore the grounds of Merrywood armed with bows and arrows, BB guns and ․22 rifles
Once went to summer camp and returned to find his room completely remodeled with red furniture, red, white and blue bedspreads and blue shag carpet
Quote: "[on Merrywood] "The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other․""
Quote: "The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine․"
Became the chief political correspondent for "Slate․"
Well known as the White House correspondent for "Time" magazine
As a child, he spent a night putting plastic wood into a series of pockmarks he had made in a door in his house when he threw a fistful of pennies at his brother so that his parents wouldn't find out
Wrote a book called "On Her Trail" about his mother, Nancy Dickerson

2019Emmy - Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast:Nominated

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