David Granger was named editor-in-chief of Esquire Magazine in June of 1997. Since his arrival, the magazine has entered one of its most successful eras. Between 1998 and 2008, Esquire has been a finalist for 42 National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honors, and has won 10, including the award for General Excellence in 2006. In 2004, the magazine received four National Magazine Awards, the most of any magazine in America. The magazine is also a leader in innovation. Just this fall, Esquire published an issue that merged digital technology with a mass-produced print product for the first time, embedding an E-Ink Display in its 75th anniversary issue cover.

Esquire has been honored with numerous awards over Granger's tenure. The Society of Publication Designers named Esquire Magazine of the Year in 2001 and it was a finalist for the award again in 2005, 2006 and 2008. It has been listed as one of America¹s Most Important Magazines, by the University of Missouri School of Journalism and is regularly cited as one of America's ten best magazines by the Chicago Tribune. In 2004, Advertising Age named Granger Editor of the Year.

Prior to becoming editor-in-chief at Esquire, Granger was the executive
editor at GQ for nearly six years.

In the preceding decade, Granger held positions as executive editor of
Adweek and MediaWeek; he worked on the launch of The National Sports Daily and served as its executive features editor; he helped launch Sports, Inc., the Sports Business Weekly, and worked as an editor at Sport Magazine and Family Weekly prior to that.

Granger has a Masters degree in English from the University of Virginia and a B.A. from the University of Tennessee, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is married and has two daughters.

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