Steve Inskeep

Inskeep is the author of three books: Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi (2011), "Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab" (2015), and "Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War" (2020).

Inskeep and his wife, Carolee, have a daughter who was born in 2005. In 2012 the Inskeeps traveled to China and adopted a second child. Steve Inskeep himself was also raised as an adopted child.

Inskeep was hired by NPR in 1996. His first full-time assignment was the 1996 presidential primary in New Hampshire.

Inskeep was raised in Carmel, Indiana, graduated from Carmel High School, and graduated from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, in 1990. His first professional experience in radio was a stint as a sportscaster at WMKY-FM in Morehead.

Steve Inskeep (/ˈ ɪ n s k iː p / ; born June 16, 1968) is an American journalist who is currently the host of Morning Edition and Up First on National Public Radio. Prior to being host of Morning Edition, Inskeep covered the Pentagon, the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the U.S. Senate, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and was host of Weekend All Things Considered.