[1] He was the son of the late financial journalist Merryle S. Rukeyser and the younger brother of the late financial journalist and commentator Louis Rukeyser of Wall Street Week fame.
He also studied English literature as a graduate student at Christ's College, Cambridge University.
[2] After four years as a Wall Street Journal reporter in Europe, he started work at Time Inc. in 1967 as an associate editor of Fortune.
[4] In 1988 he left Time Inc., to become editor in chief for Whittle Communications in Knoxville, Tennessee.
[5] He continued in that role until 2009, after which he continued to devote his time to freelance editing and editorial consulting on projects such as The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles D. Ellis (Penguin Press, 2008).