Walter Shapiro Death:- American journalist, columnist, writer and author Walter Shapiro has passed away. He was announced dead through social media publications. Walter Shapiro died on July 21, 2024. There was no cause of death reported at the time of this publication. Thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time.
Shapiro was born in NYC, raised in Norwalk, and graduated from Brien McMahon High School in 1965. He obtained his B.A. in history in 1970 from the University of Michigan, where he edited The Michigan Daily. While pursuing a master’s in European history at Michigan, Shapiro ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and finished second in a six-way Democratic primary.
Shapiro began journalism as Congressional Quarterly Washington reporter (1969–70). Since 1995, he had written for USA Today (as twice-weekly “Hype & Glory” columnist starting in 1995), The Washington Post, Time (senior writer from 1987 to 1993, covering Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign), Newsweek, Esquire, the Washington Monthly, Salon.com, and Politics Daily.
Shapiro wrote for Yahoo News, Roll Call, and The American Prospect. “The Societal Costs of Our Shrill, Hyperactive and Partisan Media Culture,” published in Politics Daily, won Shapiro the 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Online Column Writing (Independent).
Shapiro was Ray Marshall’s 1977–1978 press secretary. He was Carter’s 1979 speechwriter. His coverage included nine US presidential elections. Shapiro served on the Gihon Foundation Council on Ideas since 1992 and earned a Japan Society fellowship. An NYU Brennan Center for Justice fellow and Yale University political science lecturer, Shapiro
The 2003 Public Affairs article One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In and the 2016 Blue Rider Press book Hustling Hitler: How a Jewish Vaudevillian Fooled the Fuhrer were written by Shapiro. After years of stand-up comedy, The Times of London called Shapiro “one of Manhattan’s leading political satirists” in 1998. His columns were satirical.
While married to magazine writer Meryl Gordon, Shapiro lived in New York City and Washington, D.C.
