Josh Mensch biography

Josh Mensch Biography

See also Brad Meltzer

Josh Mensch is the coauthor of three critically acclaimed books about American history: the New York Times #2 nonfiction bestseller The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington; the New York Times #6 nonfiction bestseller The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why it Failed; and The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. All three were cowritten with award-winning author Brad Meltzer.

In addition to writing books, Josh has been a documentary television showrunner, writer, director, and producer. He has created a wide variety of historical, cultural, and journalistic programming for nonfiction networks including the History Channel, PBS, National Geographic, Discovery and others.

Remarkably, two television stories that Josh wrote and directed led to the recovery of significant artifacts from American history: the iconic flag raised by firefighters at Ground Zero on 9/11 (as featured on Lost History, for the History Channel), and the electric guitar played by Bob Dylan when he famously "plugged in" at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 (as featured on History Detectives, on PBS).

Josh grew up mostly in Buffalo, New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his filmmaker wife and their two children.

Josh Mensch's website

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