LANCE MORROW

Senior Writer
TIME Magazine

Lance Morrow, born September 21, 1939, was raised in Washington, DC and attended Gonzaga High School there. In 1963 he received a B.A. degree in English literature from Harvard University, graduating Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Morrow, whose parents were both journalists, worked summers at the Buffalo Evening News while at college, then spent a year at the Washington Star newspaper. He joined the editorial staff of TIME Magazine in 1965 and, since that time, has written over 130 cover stories. For more than a decade, he has specialized in writing TIME essays on a wide variety of subjects. A selection of his essays were honored with a National Magazine Award in 1981; he was a finalist for the same award this year. His recent efforts for TIME have included the highly-acclaimed cover story, "Evil" (June 1991), "Busybodies and Crybabies: What's happening to the American character?" (August 1991), as well as essays on Ted Kennedy, Israel and the Palestinians, the 1992 election campaign, and the 1993 Men of the Year.

Morrow is the author of The Chief, a memoir published by Random House in 1985, America: A Rediscovery, published by Henry Holt in the fall of 1987 and a collection of his essays, Fishing In the Tiber was published by Holt in the spring of 1988. Most recently, he authored Safari with Neil Leifer, which was published by Reader's Digest.