Name	Michael Kelly
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	May 22, 1969
Place of Birth	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Michael Kelly was born in Washington, D.C., in 1957, and grew up on Capitol Hill, one of four siblings. His father, Tom, was for many years a political reporter, White House reporter and columnist with The Washington Daily News, and later worked for Vista and as a freelance writer of books and magazine articles. His mother, Marguerite, was involved in local Democratic politics, and later became the author of books and a syndicated column on raising children.

After graduating with a degree in history in 1979 from the University of New Hampshire, Kelly worked for several years as a researcher, booker, and associate producer for ABC's Good Morning America. From 1983 until 1986, he was a reporter and feature writer for The Cincinnati Post, covering crime, local and state politics, and special projects. His work for the Post won numerous Associated Press and UPI awards.

Kelly was hired by The Baltimore Sun in 1986, and worked for three years in that newspaper's Washington bureau, covering the Iran-Contra affair and national politics. During the 1988 presidential election, he covered the campaigns of Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis.

In 1989, Kelly quit the Sun to become a freelance writer and moved to Chicago. He wrote for The Boston Globe, GQ, and Esquire, among other publications. Kelly also covered the Gulf War as a freelance reporter, writing for the Globe, GQ, and The New Republic. His frontline dispatches for The New Republic won a National Magazine Award and an Overseas Press award. He expanded his war coverage into a book, Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War, which was published by Random House in 1992 and won the PEN-Martha Albrand award and a New York Times Notable Books listing.

In the spring of 1992, Kelly went to work at The New York Times as a political reporter. He first briefly covered the campaign of Ross Perot, then that of Bill Clinton. He worked briefly as a White House correspondent, and then moved to the Times Magazine, where he worked for a year writing cover stories on Bill and Hillary Clinton, David Gergen, and life in the Gaza Strip under Yasir Arafat's new regime.

Kelly left the Times to accept a job as the Washington editor of The New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine's regular Letter From Washington, covered the Bosnian conflict as a foreign correspondent through the summer of 1995, and filed campaign-trail dispatches on the 1996 presidential race. He left The New Yorker in the fall of 1996 to become editor of The New Republic, and to write the TRB column for that magazine. He was fired from The New Republic in the fall of 1997.

In November of that year, Kelly joined National Journal as a weekly columnist, and also signed up to write a different weekly column for The Washington Post Writers' Group. His Post column is currently carried in twenty-four newspapers around the country, as well as in the Post itself. In July 1998, following the departure of National Journal editor Steve Smith to US News and World Report, Kelly accepted the position of editor of National Journal.

In February 2000 he became the editor of The Atlantic Monthly and moved to Swampscott, Massachusetts with his family. In 2002 he became editor at large of The Atlantic.

Michael Kelly died on April 3, 2003, while on assignment in Iraq, the first American reporter killed during the conflict. He is survived by his wife, Madelyn, and his two sons, Tom, 6, and Jack, 3.