Steven J. Erlanger (born October 14, 1952, in Waterbury, Connecticut[1]) is an American journalist who has reported from more than 120 countries.

After graduating magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College in 1974 with an A.B.

Concurrent with this assignment, he was an editor and correspondent for The Boston Globe beginning in 1976, where he served on the national and foreign desks, covered the Iranian Revolution and Solidarity in Poland and was the European correspondent based in London from 1983 to 1987.

He has written for numerous magazines, including The Spectator, The Economist, The New Republic, the Financial Times, New Statesman, Columbia Journalism Review, and The National Interest.

France made him a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur for services to journalism at the end of 2013.