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In 1984, Evans moved to the United States, where he taught at Duke University. He was subsequently appointed editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly Press and became editorial director of US News and World Report. In 1986 he was the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveler, dedicated to "truth in travel".
Evans was appointed president and publisher of Random House trade group from 1990 to 1997 and editorial director and vice chairman of US News and World Report, the New York Daily News, and The Atlantic Monthly from 1997 to January 2000, when he resigned to concentrate on writing.
Evans's best-known work, The American Century, won critical accaim when it was published in 1998. The sequel, They Made America (2004), described the lives of some of the country's most important inventors and innovators. Fortune identified it as one of the best books in the 75 years of that magazine's publication. It was adapted as a four-part television mini-series that same year and as a National Public Radio special in the USA in 2005.
Harold Evans became an American citizen in 1993, and lives in New York with his wife Tina Brown and their two children. In 2000 he was named one of International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past fifty years. He was knighted for services to journalism in 2004.
On 13 June 2011, he became Editor at Large at Reuters.
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