Gene Lyons
Appearance
Gene Lyons (born September 20, 1943) is an American political columnist who has defended
President Bill Clinton.[1]
Writing
He and
The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, a documentary book published in 2000, with a supporting film.[2][3] The book outlines a purported right-wing campaign waged against President of the United States Bill Clinton leading eventually to the president's impeachment
because he lied under oath about having extramarital sexual relations with a White House intern. It extends the discussion in Lyons' 1996 book Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater.
A winner of the 1980
National Magazine Award for Public Service for the Texas Monthly article “Why Teachers Can’t Teach”, he was an Associate Editor at Texas Monthly in 1981, and General Editor at Newsweek from 1982 to 1986. He has written hundreds of articles, essays and reviews for such magazines as Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Esquire, Slate, and Salon. His other books include The Higher Illiteracy (University of Arkansas, 1988) and Widow’s Web (Simon & Schuster
, 1993).
Lyons writes a column for the Arkansas Times that is syndicated nationally by Andrews McMeel Syndication.
Personal
Lyons is a native of
University of Texas
before becoming a full-time writer in 1976.
He has written that he "live[s] differently from most political writers: on a gravel road in a rural county with no stoplights, probably more cows than people, and that voted 2-to-1 for McCain/Palin".[4]
He is not related to character actor Gene Lyons.
References
- ^ Gene Lyons at Encyclopedia of Arkansas
- ^ "Bio: Gene Lyons". Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ "Clinton-hating cabal twisted the truth, authors contend". Archived from the original on 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ Lyons, Gene (2011-01-19) Profiting from political road rage, Salon.com
External links
- Once upon a time in Arkansas by Gene Lyons, Harper's Magazine, October, 1994
- The Pied Piper of the Clinton Conspiracists, Gene Lyons, Salon.com, December 23, 1997
- Gene Lyons' columns at the Arkansas Times