Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting. He is also the author of Gideon's Trumpet, based on a landmark Supreme Court case that secured the right of legal counsel for indigent defendants.

A former London bureau chief for the Times, Lewis currently writes an Abroad At Home column for the Op-Ed page. He joined the Times in 1948 and won his first Pulitzer in 1955 for coverage of case of a Naval employee dismissed as a security risk. Following the series, the Navy reinstated the employee.

Lewis won his second Pulitzer in 1963 for coverage of the Supreme Court during the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren. He also covered the responses of the Federal Government to the civil rights movement.

In addition to Gideon's Trumpet, Lewis is also the author of Portrait of a Decade, addressing race relations in America; and Make No Law, detailing the landmark Supreme Court First Amendment case New York Times v. Sullivan establishing that public figures must prove actual malice for success in libel suits.

A graduate of Harvard College and later a 1956-57 Nieman Fellow studying law at Harvard, Lewis was a lecturer on law at the Harvard Law School for 15 years. He currently holds the James Madison Visiting Professorship at Columbia University and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of California, Oregon, Arizona, and Illinois.

A sample of Mr. Lewis' thoughts on this subject can be found in a commentary published in the January 16, 2004 New York Times entitled, "The Justices Take on the President."


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