About James

James Grant, founder and editor of Grant’s, is an alumnus of Indiana University (and, before that, of the USS Hornet). Among his nine books are “Money of the Mind,” a history of borrowing and lending in America; a life of John Adams, the second president of the United States; and, most recently, a biography of the great Victorian financial journalist and central bankers’ muse, Walter Bagehot. Jim and his wife, Patricia Kavanagh, MD, the parents of four and the grandparents of five, live in Brooklyn.