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Lewis was born in New York City on March 27, 1927. He |
attended the Horace Mann School in New York and received his B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1948.
For his outstanding national reporting, he won the coveted Pulitzer Prize in 1955. Eight years later, he won his second Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Supreme Court for the New York Times.
Mr. Lewis was a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, teaching a course on The Constitution and the Press for fifteen years. He has taught at a number of other universities as a visitor, among them the Universities of California, Illinois, Oregon and Arizona. Since 1983 he has held the James Madison Visiting Professorship at Columbia University.
He has received a number of honorary degrees. In 1983 he was the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Fellow at Colby College. In 1987 he delivered the John Foster Memorial Lecture at University College, London.
Author of three award-winning books, Mr. Lewis has been a lifelong champion of civil rights and civil liberties. His 1964 classic “Gideon's Trumpet” has been required reading for law students for four decades
A more detailed biography of Mr. Lewis can be found here:
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