Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis | |
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Lewis in 1985 | |
| Born | Joseph Anthony Lewis March 27, 1927 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | March 25, 2013 (aged 85) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1955) |
| Spouse(s) | Linda J. Rannells (1951–1982; divorced; 3 children) |
Joseph Anthony Lewis (March 27, 1927 – March 25, 2013) was an American public intellectual and journalist. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and was a columnist for The New York Times. He is credited with creating the field of legal journalism in the United States.
Early in Lewis' career as a legal journalist, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter told an editor of The New York Times: "I can't believe what this young man achieved. There are not two justices of this court who have such a grasp of these cases." At his death, Nicholas B. Lemann, the dean of Columbia University School of Journalism, said: "At a liberal moment in American history, he was one of the defining liberal voices."