Category:Jane Mayer: Difference between revisions

| name = Jane Mayer

| image = Jane mayer 2008.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption = Mayer at the 2008 [[Wikipedia:Texas Book Festival|Texas Book Festival]]

| birth_name = Jane Meredith Mayer

| birth_place = [[Wikipedia:New York City, New York|New York City, New York]], U.S.<ref name=NewYorkerBio>{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/jane_mayer/search?contributorName=jane%20mayer |title=Jane Mayer, Contributor, The New Yorker |publisher=Newyorker.com |date= |accessdate=2017-09-26}}</ref>

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1955}}

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| death_place =

| occupation = Journalist, author

| spouse = William B. Hamilton (1992–present)

| children = Katherine Hamilton

| alma_mater = [[Wikipedia:Yale University|Yale University]] (B.A., 1977)

'''Jane Meredith Mayer'''<ref name="The New York Times">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/27/style/weddings-jane-m-mayer-william-hamilton.html|title=WEDDINGS; Jane M. Mayer, William Hamilton|website=The New York Times|date=September 27, 1992|accessdate=February 20, 2012}}</ref> (born 1955)<ref>"Jane Mayer." ''The Writers Directory''. Detroit: St. James Press, 2011. Gale Biography In Context, June 10, 2011.</ref><ref>Jane Mayer profile at ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale (2011).</ref> is an [[Wikipedia:United States|American]] [[Wikipedia:investigative journalism|investigative journalist]] who has been a staff writer for ''[[:Category:New Yorker|The New Yorker]]'' since 1995.<ref name=NewYorkerBio/> In recent years, she has written for that publication on money in politics, government prosecution of [[Wikipedia:whistleblower|whistleblower]]s, the United States [[Wikipedia:Predator drone|Predator drone]] program, Donald Trump's ghostwriter,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all|title=Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All|first=Jane|last=Mayer|date=18 July 2016|publisher=|accessdate=26 September 2017|via=www.newyorker.com}}</ref> and [[Wikipedia:Presidency of Donald Trump|President]] Trump's financial backer, [[:Category:Robert Mercer|Robert Mercer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency |title=The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency |publisher=The New Yorker |date= |accessdate=2017-09-26}}</ref> In 2016, Mayer's book ''[[Wikipedia:Dark Money|Dark Money]]'', in which she investigated the history of the right-wing billionaire network centered around the [[:Category:Koch Bro|Koch brothers]], was published to critical acclaim.{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}}

==See also==

*{{Wikipedia-inline|Jane Mayer}}

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