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Presidential Citizens Medal Recipient Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis has been a columnist for The New York Times since 1969 and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize.
Born in New York City on March 27, 1927, he attended the Horace Mann School in New York City and Harvard College, receiving a B.A. in 1948.
From 1948 to 1952 he was a deskman for The New York Times. In 1952 he became a reporter for The Washington Daily News. In 1955 Mr Lewis joined the Washington Bureau of The New York Times. In 1956-57 he was studied at the Harvard Law School, as a Nieman Fellow. From 1957 to 1964 he covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and other legal matters, including the legal aspects of the Civil Rights Movement, for The New York Times. He became chief of the papers London Bureau in 1964. He returned to the United States in 1973.
In 1955, Mr Lewis won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting as a result of a series of articles in The New York Times on the dismissal of a Navy employee as a security risk. The employee was reinstated as a result of Mr Lewiss articles.
In 1963, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the Supreme Court.
He is the author of three books: Gideons Trumpet (1964), about the landmark Supreme Court case which established the right to State provided counsel for accused persons in criminal cases; Portrait of a Decade (1964), an account of the struggle for civil rights, and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991), about the Supreme Courts ground breaking application of the free speech principle to the law of libel.
Mr Lewis was for fifteen years a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, teaching a course on The Constitution and the Press. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the Universities of California, Illinois, Oregon and Arizona. Since 1983 he has held the James Madison Visiting Professorship at Columbia University, New York.
Mr Lewis lives in Boston and travels frequently, in the United States and elsewhere. He is married to Justice Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and formerly General Counsel and Vice-President at Harvard University.
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Revered by colleagues and readers alike for his Pulitzer prize-winning reporting, profound insight, and broad understanding of constitutional law, Anthony Lewis has set the highest standard of journalistic ethics and excellence. A staunch defender of freedom of speech, individual rights, and the rule of law, he has been a clear and courageous voice for democracy and justice.
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Citizens Medal History
