Christopher Tennant (born August 17, 1978) is an American magazine editor, artist, and author of ''The Official Filthy Rich Handbook'', published by

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in June 2008. Tennant graduated from the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

in 2000 with degrees in

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and

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...

. While at Madison, he served as Editor in Chief of the ''Badger Herald'', America's largest independent daily student newspaper. ''The Official Filthy Rich Handbook''—a satirical guide to fitting in with America’s “top .0001 percent”—was pitched as a “quasi-sequel” to the best-selling 1980 classic ''

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'', also published by Workman. It was excerpted in the June 2008 issue of '' Vanity Fair''. Tennant began his journalism career after graduating college in 2000, when he was hired by Maer Roshan as a personal assistant at ''New York'' magazine. In the next decade he followed Roshan to ''Talk'', ''Radar'' magazine and Radaronline.com, the independent pop culture magazine and web site that Roshan launched in 2003. He left the magazine in February 2008 as Deputy Editor. From 2008 to 2010 he was the Executive Editor of '' The Daily Front Row'', a cheeky fashion glossy distributed at

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. He is currently a contributing editor at ''Vanity Fair'' and editor at large of ''

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'' In 2011, he launched a side career making Victorian-style aquatic dioramas.Preiser, Amy (6-9-11)
"Backstory: Christopher Tennant's Aquatic Cases"
"AOL Shelterpop''. Retrieved on 10-19-11. In 2016 he was hired as Executive Editor of Harper’s Bazaar but left the magazine a year later.

Bibliography

* ''"The Official Filthy Rich Handbook"'' - 2008 (author)
''Vanity Fair''
(article archive)
''New York''
(article archive)
"The Consiglieri of the Magazine World"
Gawker

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tennant, Christopher 1978 births American magazine editors Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication alumni