Anthony Lewis author biography, plus links to books by Anthony Lewis.

Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis (March 27, 1927 – March 25, 2013) was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the foremost thinkers on freedom of speech and First Amendment rights.

In a distinguished career at The New York Times, Lewis served as columnist, bureau chief in London, and reporter in Washington covering the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, and legal affairs. His coverage of the court won a Pulitzer in 1963. His first Pulitzer, in 1955, came when, as a reporter for the Washington Daily News, he wrote a series of stories on the improper dismissal of a Naval employee. The articles led to the employee's reinstatement.

Lewis was a tireless scholar of journalism, having taught and lectured at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as Harvard University. He is the author of five books including Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment and Gideon's Trumpet, which won the Edgar Award in 1965 and has sold nearly a million copies in over forty years in print . His last book, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment, was published in 2008.

This biography was last updated on 12/28/2007.

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