Lewis H. Lapham was born January 8, 1935 in San Francisco, California, and educated at Yale University (B.A., 1956) and at Cambridge University (1956-1957). He was a newspaper reporter for The San Francisco Examiner (1957-1959) and for The New York Herald Tribune (1960-1962), a contract writer for The Saturday Evening Post (1963-1968) and for Life magazine (1969-1970), the managing editor of Harper’s Magazine (1971-1975), the editor of Harper’s Magazine (1976-1981 and 1983-2006), and the founding editor of Lapham’s Quarterly (2007-present.) Inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editor's Hall of Fame in 2007, Lapham continues to write his bi-monthly "Notebook" column for Harper's Magazine. His documentary film, "The American Ruling Class," premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Century Club, the Advisory Council to The New School University, Mr. Lapham has lectured at many of the nation's leading universities, among them Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Stamford and the Universities of Michigan, Virginia, and Oregon. He lives in New York City.
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