Lapham's Quarterly

About Lewis Lapham
EDITOR OF LAPHAM'S QUARTERLY

LEWIS H. LAPHAM is Editor of Lapham's Quarterly. He also serves as editor emeritus and national correspondent for Harper's Magazine. Mr. Lapham is the author of numerous books, including Money and Class in America, Theater of War, Gag Rule, and, most recently, Pretensions to Empire. The New York Times has likened him to H.L. Mencken; Vanity Fair has suggested a strong resemblance to Mark Twain, and Tom Wolfe compared him to Montaigne.

Mr. Lapham currently writes "Notebook," a bi-monthly column for Harper's that won a National Magazine Award in 1995 for exhibiting "an exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity." He has also written for Life, Commentary, The National Review, Yale Literary Magazine, Elle, Forbes, The American Spectator, Vanity Fair, Golf Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Maclean's, The London Observer, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

A native of San Francisco, Mr. Lapham was educated at Yale College and Cambridge University. He served two terms as editor of Harper's Magazine (1976-1981) and (1983-2006), and during those thirty years, the 157-year-old monthly won fourteen National Magazine Awards.

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