Andrew Ferguson (born June 28, 1956) is an American journalist and author.

Career

Ferguson is currently a staff writer at The Atlantic. Previously, he was senior editor of The Weekly Standard (defunct since December 2018), and a columnist for Bloomberg News based in Washington, D.C. After the close of The Weekly Standard, David Brooks called Ferguson "the greatest political writer of my generation." Before joining the Standard at its founding in 1995, he was senior editor at Washingtonian magazine. He has been a columnist for Fortune, TV Guide, and Forbes FYI, and a contributing editor to Time. He has also written for The New Yorker, New York, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. In 1992, he was a White House speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush. A collection of his essays, Fools' Names, Fools' Faces, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1996, and Land of Lincoln was published released by Grove/Atlantic in 2007. His work has appeared in several anthologies. Ferguson cites H.L. Mencken and E.B. White as influences.

Personal life

Ferguson is a practicing Catholic.