Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace is a is a history and nonfiction author best known as an award-winning journalist that has worked for the likes of Fox News and NBC among several other prestigious media houses. He was born to Mike Wallace a CBS “60 Minutes” reporter and Normal Kaphan in Chicago, Illinois. He was named Christopher since he was born on October 12 in 1947, which happened to be Columbus Day. When he was just a year old, his parents got a divorce and he was lucky enough that his mother remarried a few years later. His stepfather was the President of CBS News, Bill Leonard, which perhaps led to his passion for journalism and the news. As such, he was exposed to political journalism from a very early age when he was hired as Walter Cronkite’s assistant during the Republican National Convention in 1964. As a teen, he went to Hotchkiss School and upon graduation attended Harvard College. It was while he was in college that he got the opportunity to test his reporting skills when he worked for the student radio station “WHRB.” He was also involved in the student occupation of University Hall in 1969 and still remembers being detained and then using his one call privilege to sign off a report.