Jonathan Allen

Jon is an award-winning political reporter and #1 New York Times bestselling author based in Washington, D.C. A senior national politics reporter with NBC News, he appears frequently on MSNBC and News Now. Born in Silver Spring, Md., Jon attended St. Mary's College in Southern Maryland, where he played baseball, and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1998. He got his start in journalism as a copy editor and fill-in reporter with the Prince William Journal in Manassas, Va. He later moved to Congressional Quarterly, where he won the prestigious Everett McKinley Dirksen and Sandy Hume awards for his coverage of Congress. In 2009, Jon was hired by Politico, where he wrote a newsletter about Congress - The Huddle - co-anchored the "Politico Live" morning television series and eventually became the outlet's White House bureau chief. Politico is also where he met his writing partner, Amie Parnes, who sat in the same cluster of desks with Jon and novelist Karin Tanabe. In 2012, Jo