Lance Morrow

Lance Morrow (born 21 Sept 1939 in Philadelphia, PA) is an essayist and writer, chiefly for Time Magazine,^[1] as well as the author of several books. He won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was a finalist for the same award in 1991. He has the distinction of writing more "Man of the Year" articles than any other writer in the magazine's history and has appeared on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and "The O'Reilly Factor". He is a former professor of journalism and Fellow of the University Professors at Boston University.

Career

Morrow joined Time in 1965 after a brief stint with the old Washington Star. As a reporter, he covered the 1967 Detroit race riots, the Vietnam War, the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandal. He also has penned several of Time's "Man of the Year" articles.

In 1976, Morrow became a regular writer of Time's backpage essay. His essays would often weave philosophy (sometimes with a flavor of Catholic scholasticism) with current events. Morrow won the National Magazine Award for his essays in Time in 1981, was a finalist for the award in 1991 (for an essay cover on the subject of evil), and was among the Time writers who won the award in 2001, for their coverage of September 11 (in a special issue that closed on the afternoon of the September 11 attacks. Morrow contributed the essay for that issue).

He resigned as a professor at Boston University in 2006 when he was asked to write the authorized biography of Henry Luce, the founder of Time Magazine.

Morrow continues to contribute essays, book reviews, and occasional articles to the magazine and to both Time and CNN's websites.

Biography

Lance Morrow was born on September 21, 1939. His father, Hugh Morrow, was a chief aide to Nelson Rockefeller. Morrow graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1963 with a BA in English literature.

He lives in Chatham, New York, with his wife Susan Brind Morrow, who is also an author. They have two sons, Justin, a writer and filmmaker, and James, a political consultant and journalist. Lance Morrow’s cousin is the science fiction writer James K. Morrow.

References

External links

• PBS Here & Now 9/17/2003 episode (audio) discusses Morrow's book Evil: An Investigation: http://www.here-now.org/shows/2003/09/20030917_5.asp
• Booknotes interview with Morrow on Evil: An Investigation, October 19, 2003.