Jerry Adler is a former Senior Editor forNewsweek and Yahoo! News.^[1] He writes forSmithsonian^[2] andScientific American magazines,^[3]International Business Times,^[4]The New Yorker,New York,Wired, Scientific American, Smithsonian,The Daily Beast,^[5]Esquire, and is the author ofHigh Rise, about the building of a skyscraper, and co-author ofThe Price of Terror, about the struggle of families of Pan Am 103 victims to get justice after theLockerbie bombing. In 2009 he originated Newsverse at Newsweek.com, a weekly satirical poem.^[6] He appeared on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" to recite one of his poems in 2010.

His articles were twice finalists for National Magazine Awards and won a Sydney Hillman award.

He received his B.A. in American history from Yale University in 1970.^[7]

• The Price of Terror,Allan Gerson, Jerry Adler, Publisher: Harper (2001),ISBN 0060197617,ISBN 978-0060197612
• High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper, Jerry Adler, Harpercollins (1994),ISBN 006092456X,ISBN 978-0060924560

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