Charlotte Alter is a journalist and author. Her forthcoming novel See Jane Run, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2027, the first in a series of humanist thrillers.
Her 2020 political nonfiction book, The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America (Viking) charts the way gerontocracy threatens democracy and chronicles the rising generation of young political leaders.
She was most recently a Senior Correspondent at TIME, where she worked from 2013-2025. While there, she covered three presidential elections, launched a podcast and wrote 18 cover stories. She is the recipient of the Newswomen’s Club’s Front Page Award for Best Magazine Feature (2023) and for Specialized Reporting in Politics (2024). Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Vox. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the journalist and author Mark Chiusano, and their two children.
“When it comes to political prescience today, Time magazine writer Charlotte Alter is arguably peerless. ”
The Los Angeles Times
“She does an excellent job detailing — with persuasive data — what has shaped and motivated this young generation so far… thanks to Alter’s timely book we can have a better understanding of why an entire generation was set back and what’s driving it now. ”
The New York Times
“She is by turns sarcastic, funny and sincere, but always conversational…Alter’s book will come as a tonic to millennials who have grown weary of boomers’ well-worn complaints about them.”
The Washington Post
