[citation needed] In 1978, writing as a freelance under the byline Philip Faflick in the Village Voice, Elmer-DeWitt published the first interview with Jean-Michel Basquiat.
His interviews include Steve Jobs,[7] Bill Gates,[8] William Gibson,[9] Elmore Leonard,[10] and Anita Roddick.
[13] Elmer-DeWitt helped start TIME.com,[1] and organized[14] TIME -sponsored scientific conferences on genetics[15] (2003), obesity[16] (2004) and global health.
[17] In January 2007, he joined Josh Quittner at Business 2.0, another Time Inc. publication, as that magazine's executive editor.
In 2014 he moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts,[23] married the architect Margo Jones[24] and was elected to the city council of his new hometown.