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Name: Lewis Lapham  
   
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Date of Birth: 8th January 1935
   
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Lewis Lapham

Lewis Henry Lapham (born January 8, 1935) is the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine. He has also written many books on politics and current affairs.

Lapham was born and grew up in San Francisco. His grandfather, Roger Lapham, was mayor of San Francisco, and his great grandfather was a founder of Texaco.

Lapham was educated at the Hotchkiss School, Yale and Cambridge.

In 1971, Lapham became editor of Harper's, after having worked for the San Francisco Examiner and New York Herald Tribune.

Lapham's son, Andrew Lapham, married Caroline Mulroney, the daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, in September 2000.

Books by Lewis H. Lapham

  • Fortune's Child
  • Money and Class in America
  • Imperial Masquerade
  • The Wish for Kings
  • Hotel America
  • Waiting for the Barbarians
  • Theater of War (2003)
  • Gag Rule

His writing has appeared in Life, Commentary, Vanity Fair, National Review, Yale Literary Magazine, ELLE, Fortune, Forbes, American Spectator, New York Times, Maclean's, The Observer (London), and the Wall Street Journal.

Lapham is the host and author of the PBS series, America's Century, and he was host of the weekly PBS series, Bookmark.

This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Lewis Lapham