Lance Morrow
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Lance Morrow (1939) is professor of journalism and Fellow of the University Professors at Boston University, a writer for Time Magazine,[1] and 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.
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, using well-styled prose. Among his Time cover stories are essays on God and the Problem of Evil.
Morrow continues to contribute essays, book reviews, and occasional articles to the magazine and to both Time and CNN's websites.
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. He has two sons, James and Justin.
Lance Morrow was born on September 21, 1939. 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. Considered by many to be Time Magazine's premier essayist for three decades, 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 11th (in a special issue that closed on the afternoon of September 11th. Morrow contributed the essay for that issue).
[edit] References
- ^ Akosah-Sarpong, Kofi (12 July 2011). "Ghana: Under the Siege of Prophetic Trance". AllAfrica.com. http://allafrica.com/stories/201107120022.html. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
[edit] 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.
