Marc Fisher was a columnist for the Washington Post between 2000 and 2009. He is now the Enterprise Editor for the Post. He attended the Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School is an independent college preparatory school in New York City, New York, United States founded in 1887 known for its rigorous course of studies. Horace Mann is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League, educating students from all across the New York tri-state area from...

 and Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

. He worked at the Miami Herald from 1981 to 1986. Since then, he has worked at the Washington Post as a reporter, editor, and columnist. He was the Post's foreign correspondent in Germany from 1989 to 1994. He is the author of two books, After the Wall: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History, and Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation.