Jerry Adler is a former Senior Editor for Newsweek and Yahoo! News.^[1] He writes for Smithsonian^[2] and Scientific American magazines,^[3] International Business Times,^[4] The New Yorker, New York, Wired, Scientific American, Smithsonian, The Daily Beast,^[5] Esquire, and is the author of High Rise, about the building of a skyscraper, and co-author of The Price of Terror, about the struggle of families of Pan Am 103 victims to get justice after the Lockerbie bombing. In 2009 he originated Newsverse at Newsweek.com, a weekly satirical poem.^[6] He appeared on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" to recite one of his poems in 2010.

His articles were twice finalists for National Magazine Awards and won a Sydney Hillman award.

He received his B.A. in American history from Yale University in 1970.^[7]

• The Price of Terror, Allan Gerson, Jerry Adler, Publisher: Harper (2001), ISBN 0060197617, ISBN 978-0060197612
• High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper, Jerry Adler, Harpercollins (1994), ISBN 006092456X, ISBN 978-0060924560