Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis, Visiting Lombard Lecturer, was a columnist for the New York Times from 1969 to 2001. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice. From 1948–1952 he was a deskman in the Sunday Department of The Times. In 1952 he became a reporter for The Washington Daily News. In 1955 he won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles in The News on the dismissal of a Navy employee as a security risk. In 1955 Mr. Lewis joined the Washington Bureau of The New York Times. From 1956–57 he was a Nieman Fellow. On his return to The Times in Washington, he covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and other legal matters, including the Government’s handling of the civil rights movement. He won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Supreme Court in 1963. Lewis became chief of The Times‘s London bureau in 1964. He began writing his column from London in 1969. Since 1973 he has been located in Boston. He is the author of three books: Gideon’s Trumpet, about a landmark Supreme Court case; Portrait of a Decade, about the great changes in American race relations; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. For fifteen years Mr. Lewis was a lecturer at the Harvard Law School, teaching a course on the Constitution and the Press. He has taught at a number of other universities, among them the universities of California, Illinois, Oregon and Arizona. Since 1983 he has held the James Madison Visiting Professorship at Columbia University. Lewis will teach a course at the Kennedy School entitled “The First Amendment: Legal Doctrine and Political Practice.”