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Lance Morrow | |
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| Born | Lance Thomas Morrow (1939-09-21)September 21, 1939 |
| Died | November 29, 2024(2024-11-29) (aged 85) Spencertown, New York, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) |
| Period | 1963–2024 |
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| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | James K. Morrow (cousin) |
Lance Thomas Morrow (September 21, 1939 – November 29, 2024) was an American essayist and writer, chiefly forTime magazine,[1] as well as the author of several books. He won the 1981National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was a finalist for the same award in 1991. He had the distinction of writing more "Man of the Year" articles than any other writer in the magazine's history and appeared onThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson andThe O'Reilly Factor. He was a professor of journalism and University Professor atBoston University.
Lance Thomas Morrow was born inPhiladelphia on September 21, 1939, and was raised in Washington D.C.,[2] where he attendedGonzaga College High School. His father, Hugh Morrow, was for many years a chief aide to New York Governor and later Vice PresidentNelson Rockefeller.[3] Morrow graduated magna cum laude fromHarvard University in 1963 with a BA in English literature.[3]
Morrow joinedTime in 1965 after a two-year stint with the now-defunctWashington Star.[2][3] As a reporter, he covered the 1967 Detroitrace riots, theVietnam War, theNixon administration and theWatergate scandal. He also penned several ofTime's "Man of the Year" articles.[2] Morrow had conservative and progressive-leaning views, withThe Washington Post noting that he was skeptical of affirmative action while also supporting environmentalist policy.[2]
In 1976, Morrow became a regular writer ofTime's backpage essay. He won the National Magazine Award for hisTime essays in 1981, was a finalist for the award in 1991 (for a cover essay on the subject of evil), and was among theTime writers who won the award in 2001, for their coverage of theSeptember 11 attacks (in a special issue that closed on the afternoon of that day).[2] In Morrow's award-winning essay, "The Case for Rage and Retribution", he wrote:
A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage... Let America explore the rich reciprocal possibilities of the fatwa. A policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span. America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred... This is the moment of clarity. Let the civilized toughen up, and let the uncivilized take their chances in the game they started."[4]
Morrow was a professor atBoston University from 1996 to 2006, when he was asked to write the authorized biography ofHenry Luce, the founder ofTime magazine.[3]
In 2018, he began contributing toCity Journal magazine.[5] He also contributed columns forThe Wall Street Journal, and continued to write until the last months of his life.[2]
Morrow lived inSpencertown, New York with his wife,Susan Brind Morrow, who is also an author.[3] They married in 1988 after the dissolution of his first marriage, to Brooke Wayne.[2] He and Wayne had two sons.[3] His cousin was the science fiction writerJames K. Morrow.
Beginning when he was 36, Morrow had four heart attacks during his life. After his second, when he was 53, he wrote a memoir entitledHeart.[3]
Lance Morrow died at home from prostate cancer on November 29, 2024, at the age of 85.[2]
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