{{Short description|American writer}} '''Christopher Scheer''' (born September 8, 1968) is an American writer and editor. He is the son of veteran journalist Robert Scheer, and has co-authored two ''Los Angeles Times'' bestsellers with him.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |date=February 9, 2004 |title=Mark Green v. Robert & Christopher Scheer: A Debate on Kerry & the Democratic Contenders |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2004/2/9/mark_green_v_robert_christopher_scheer |website=Democracy Now!}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2010-10-01 |title=L.A. Times bestsellers: Surf's up! |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/jacket-copy/story/2010-09-30/l-a-times-bestsellers-surfs-up |access-date=2025-07-13 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Biography== Scheer was born in Berkeley, California. His parents are lawyer Anne Butterfield Weills and journalist Robert Scheer.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/l/Derek-Walter-/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0039.html |title= My Genealogy - Information about Anne Butterfield Weills |publisher= Ancestry.com |accessdate= 2011-11-15}}</ref>
A graduate of Berkeley High School (1985) and UC Santa Barbara (1990), he co-founded and edited ''Prognosis'', an English-language newspaper in Prague.<ref>{{cite news |title= For some young Americans, Prague is the place to wait out recession. It's a 'Left Bank of the '90s,' a . . . Land of Opportunity |first= Charles T. |last= Powers |authorlink= Charles T. Powers |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-13-vw-183-story.html |newspaper= Los Angeles Times |page= E-1 |date= 1992-01-13 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.pressflex.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/33/Wild,_Wild_EAST.html|title=Wild, Wild East|first=Henry|last=Copeland|magazine=Details|date=April 1992}}</ref> Later, he worked with Oliver Stone as a creative consultant on the Academy-award nominated script for ''Nixon'',<ref>{{IMDb name|0770453}}</ref> as well as several unproduced scripts.
After working as an editor at ''The San Francisco Examiner''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1999/12/19/STYLE10411.dtl&hw=christopher+scheer&sn=001&sc=1000|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912033546/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1999/12/19/STYLE10411.dtl&hw=christopher+scheer&sn=001&sc=1000|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 12, 2012|title=The battle to be a breeder|first=Christopher|last=Scheer|date=December 19, 1999|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref> for several years, as well as writing for ''The Nation'', the ''Los Angeles Times''<ref>{{cite news |title= Thailand to L.A., a Life of Debasement Thai slaves: The women found in a garment sweatshop were conditioned by their culture to accept fate. |first= Christopher |last= Scheer |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-14-me-34897-story.html |newspaper= Los Angeles Times |page= B-5 |date= 1995-08-14 |accessdate= 2011-11-16 }}</ref> and other publications, he launched the news/activism website Workingforchange.com for Working Assets, then moved on to become the managing editor of the alternative news site, Alternet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alternet.org/authors/christopher-scheer|title=Stories by Christopher Scheer|website=Alternet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422072522/http://www.alternet.org/authors/christopher-scheer|archive-date=April 22, 2016}}</ref> Currently, he teaches debate, mock trial, and journalism<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/rethinking-high-school-education-in-oakland/|title=Rethinking High School Education in Oakland|first=Rachel|last=Gross|date=April 7, 2010}}</ref> at Skyline High School in Oakland, California. He is the advisor for Skyline's national award winning student newspaper ''The Oracle''.
Scheer is the co-author, with his father Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of ''The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scheer |first1=Christopher |title=The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq |last2=Scheer |first2=Robert |author-link2=Robert Scheer |last3=Chaudhry |first3=Lakshmi |date=2003 |publisher=Akashic Books and Seven Stories Press |isbn=1-58322-644-3}}</ref> published in 2003 in the US, the United Kingdom and Australia. The book appeared on the ''Los Angeles Times'' bestseller list and was a part of the national debate in 2004 about the then still popular Iraq War.<ref name=":0" /> In 2010 he co-authored [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-oct-18-la-et-book-20101018-story.html ''The Great American Stickup''] with his father, which also appeared on the ''Los Angeles Times'' bestseller list.<ref name=":1" /> In 2016, he co-authored California Comeback: How a 'Failed State' Became a Model for the Nation with Narda Zacchino.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=California Comeback: How a “Failed State” Became a Model for the Nation by Narda Zacchino |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312649357 |access-date=2025-07-13 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}</ref>
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