Robert Draper will join The New York Times Magazine as a staff writer. Draper will begin on Jan. 9. In his new role, Draper will be based in Washington and will cover politics and political figures, focused on Republican officials.
He will continue to work on profiles and long-form narratives with deputy editor of Politics and Investigations Jessica Lustig at the magazine.
Draper has been a contributing writer at the magazine since 2009.
Over the past 15 years, Draper has published a sequence of essential books about American politics, starting with “Dead Certain,” a narrative account of the George W. Bush administration.
You can congratulate Draper on Twitter.
