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James M. Lawrence (born November 11 1946) is the founder of Harrowsmith, Equinox, Harrowsmith Country Life, and EatingWell Magazines. He is currently relaunching CORAL Magazine as editor and publisher. CORAL is serves an international audience of marine scientists, amateur and professional aquarists, and coral reef ecologists. It is the English-language edition of KORALLE, published by Natur und Tier-Verlag in Münster, Germany. Other international editions appear in France, Italy, Poland, and Russia.

As a book publisher, he has founded Camden House Publishing Ltd., Chapters Publishing Ltd., and Microcosm, Ltd. Microcosm is a pioneering proponent of sustainable harvest practices on coral reefs and in other areas supplying the international aquarium trade.

Lawrence is the recipient of a number of National Magazine Awards in Canada, for writing, editing, art direction, and publishing achievement, including the National Magazine Awards Magazine of the Year in 1977 for Harrowsmith and 1981 for Equinox. He received a James Beard Awards Foundation Award for Best Magazine Writing in 2005 and edited the Beard Award Winning Eating Well Diet Cookbook in 2007.

He is the author or editor of the following books: The Harrowsmith Reader, The Harrowsmith Sourcebook, Sweet Maple, The New Marine Aquarium, The Conscientious Marine Aquarist, Natural Marine Aquariums, and other titles.

Lawrence is chairman emeritus of the Board of Advisors of Vermont Life Magazine, Montpelier, VT, and currently chairman of The Charlotte News, Charlotte, VT, a not-for-profit community newspaper.

A graduate of Cornell University (B.S., 1969) and The S.I. Newhouse School of Publication Communications at Syracuse University (M.A., 1972), Lawrence resides in Charlotte, Vermont.

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Fabricant, Florence (2002). ["A Food Magazine's Second Course| http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E3DD1538F937A15754C0A9649C8B63&scp=7&sq=eatingwell%20magazine&st=cse ."] The New York Times, July 24, 2002.

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+Fabricant, Florence (2002). ["A Food Magazine's Second Course| http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E3DD1538F937A15754C0A9649C8B63&scp=7&sq=eatingwell%20magazine&st=cse ."] The New York Times, July 24, 2002.
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