Love, Loss & Legacy
In This Is Getting Old, Paul Taylor reflects on love, marriage, family, friendship, community, and patriotism in an era of head-spinning social and demographic change. Sometimes raw, sometimes droll, always hopeful, his memoir is a deeply human look at growing old, at what matters in life, and at what his generation owes to posterity.
Paul Taylor
Author | Speaker
Paul Taylor has been a journalist, public opinion survey researcher, demographer, and media reformer.
He served as Executive Vice President of the Pew Research Center, where he oversaw all polling on social, demographic and generational trends.
Paul was reporter for the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Twin City Sentinel. He covered four U.S. presidential campaigns and was the Post’s bureau chief in South Africa during its transition from apartheid to democracy and the election of Nelson Mandela as its first black president.
He founded and served as president of the Alliance for Better Campaigns, a non-partisan public interest group that sought to improve the way U.S. presidential campaigns are conducted on television. Its honorary co-chairs were Walter Cronkite, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.
Paul has published three books — This is Getting Old, The Next America, and See How They Run — and given lectures around the world about demographic and generational change.
He graduated from Yale University with a BA in American Studies and twice served as the visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
He and his wife, Stefanie, have three children and five grandchildren. They spend most of each year in the Adirondack summer community where they met as toddlers.