Long Run
New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis retires from the paper where he
spent half a century.
By
Kathryn S. Wenner
Kathryn S. Wenner, a former AJR associate editor, is a copy editor at the Washington Post.
Venerable New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis retires after 50 years
at the paper. Lewis, 74, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, says he has
"always identified with the underdog." He began writing his column in
1969 while heading the Times' London bureau. Among the topics he has
"cared about the most," Lewis says, are the Vietnam War (he
"steadfastly" opposed it), the Middle East ("probably that produced the
most outrage"), ending apartheid in South Africa ("one of the terrible
things in the world that actually worked out") and, in recent years, the
"cruel treatment of immigrants [for] minor legal infractions." He won
his first Pulitzer in 1955 for his reporting on a victim of the "Red
Scare" for the Washington Daily News, his second in 1963 for his Supreme
Court coverage in the Times. Lewis for years has taught courses on the
press and the law at Harvard Law School and Columbia University.
Post-retirement, he'll be teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government. ###
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