Photograph by Joshua Simpson
Lewis H. Lapham
(1935 - 2024)
The editor and founder of Lapham’s Quarterly and editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1975 to 2006, Lewis H. Lapham was a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame. He was the author of fourteen books, among them Money and Class in America, The Wish for Kings, Waiting for the Barbarians, Theater of War, and Age of Folly. He produced a weekly podcast, The World in Time, for Bloomberg News from 2011 through 2013. His documentary film The American Ruling Class has become part of the curriculum in many of the nation’s schools and colleges. Lapham lectured at Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Minnesota.
