Lewis H. Lapham

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Lewis H. Lapham
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma materYale University
Magdalene College, Cambridge
OccupationWriter
Known forFormer editor of Harper's Magazine
Spouse
Joan Brooke Reeves
​
(m. 1972)​
Children3
Parent(s)Lewis A. Lapham
Jane Foster
RelativesCaroline Mulroney (daughter-in-law)

Lewis Henry Lapham (/ˈlæpəm/; born January 8, 1935) is an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006.[1] He is the founder of Lapham's Quarterly, a quarterly publication about history and literature, and has written numerous books on politics and current affairs.

Personal life

A son of Lewis A. Lapham and Jane Foster, Lapham was born and grew up in San Francisco. His grandfather Roger Lapham was mayor of San Francisco, and his great-grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham, was a founder of Texaco. Through his grandfather, Lapham is a first cousin once removed of actor Christopher Lloyd, although they are three years apart in age. As a child, he attended the Hotchkiss School.

Lapham was educated at

Magdalene College, Cambridge and Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall
.

In 1972, Lapham married Joan Brooke Reeves, the daughter of Edward J. Reeves, a stockbroker and grocery heir, and Elizabeth M. Brooke (formerly the wife of Thomas Wilton Phipps, a nephew of

Nancy Astor
). They have three children:

Harper's Magazine

Lewis Lapham served as editor of

PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award. In 2007, he was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame.[3]

Republican National Convention

Lapham wrote a September 2004 column for Harper's in which he included a brief account of the

New York Times Book Review.[4] The magazine arrived in subscribers' mailboxes before the convention took place, as Senior says "forcing Lapham to admit that the scene was a fiction". The columnist apologized, "but pointed out political conventions are drearily scripted anyway – he basically knew what was going to be said". Senior continues, "By this logic, though, I could have chosen not to read Pretensions to Empire before reviewing it, since I already knew Lapham's sensibility, just as he claims to know the Republicans."[4]

Works

External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Lapham on The Wish for Kings, August 15, 1993, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Lapham on The Wish for Kings, July 27, 1993, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Lapham on New American Ruling Class, January 25, 1996, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Lapham on An American Album: 150 Years of Harper's Magazine, May 25, 2000, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Lapham on Theater of War, October 3, 2002, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Lapham on Age of Folly, November 3, 2016, C-SPAN

His writing has appeared in

PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award
.

Lapham is the host and author of the PBS series America's Century and he was host of the weekly PBS series, Bookmark from 1989 to 1991.[6]

Lapham is currently the host of The World in Time: radio discussions with scholars and historians on

Bloomberg.com.[7]

Lapham wrote

Sundance Channel
, July 30, 2007.

Books

Articles

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Lewis Lapham", Guest, Charlie Rose, archived from the original on May 14, 2008, retrieved July 7, 2008.
  2. ^ "Gotha", Royalty, Chivalric orders, archived from the original on June 13, 2010.
  3. ^ Past recipients, Magazine, archived from the original on June 26, 2012, retrieved September 16, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Senior, Jennifer (September 24, 2006), "Takin Aim", The New York Times Book Review (review of Pretensions to Empire by Lewis H. Lapham and How Bush Rules by Sidney Blumenthal), archived from the original on December 4, 2011, retrieved September 23, 2006.
  5. ^ Lapham, Lewis H (April 4, 2011). The Servant Problem. Archived from the original on April 6, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2011. {{cite book}}: |newspaper= ignored (help).
  6. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  7. ^ Lapham, Lewis, "Interviews", Bloomberg, archived from the original (audio podcasts) on May 16, 2008.
  8. ^ "Historical Winners List". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Archived from the original on April 8, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  9. Newspapers.com
    .

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