Lewis H. Lapham

Fellow

Born January 8, 1935 in San Francisco, California, Lewis Lapham
was educated at Yale University (B.A., 1956) and at Cambridge University (1956-1957). He has been a newspaper reporter for The San Francisco Examiner (1957-1959), and for The New York Herald Tribune (1960-1962); contract writer for The Saturday Evening Post (1963-1968), for Life magazine (1969-1970); managing editor of Harper’s Magazine (1971-1975); editor of Harper’s Magazine (1976-1981 and 1983-2006); and, most recently, 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 and 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 has also worked with the PEN American Center, sitting on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award. He lives in New York City.