Wick Allison is the founder and owner of D Magazine.

He is also the chairman of People Newspapers, which he purchased in 2003. People publishes Park Cities People, Preston Hollow People, Lakewood People, Lake Highlands People, Bent Tree People, West Plano People, and Turtle Creek People—all weekly newspapers.

D Magazine also publishes D Home, the D Weddings, Eating & Drinking, Dallas Design Book, and the Dallas Medical Directory, as well as numerous magazines for universities, associations, and businesses.

Allison is a fifth generation Texan who was born and raised in Dallas and attended the University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, he worked in the White House and served in the U.S. Army. He attended SMU’s Graduate School of Business where he wrote his business plan for D Magazine.

He is the founder of Art & Antiques magazine in New York and the former publisher of William F. Buckley’s National Review. Allison is the author of The Bible Designed to be Read as Living Literature, That’s in the Bible?, and Condemned to Repeat It; Lessons of History For Leaders.

He is married to the former Christine Peterson and has four daughters.