Anthony Lewis, a columnist with the New York Times since 1969, has twice won a Pulitzer Prize. In 1948, he joined the newspaper's news team, leaving in 1952 to become a reporter for the Washington Daily News.
He returned to the Times in 1955, working in its Washington bureau, and then headed its London office between 1964 and 1973.
He also studied at the Harvard Law School as a Nieman Fellow and as a reporter covered the Supreme Court (for which he was awarded a Pulitzer), the Justice Department and legal matters including those related to the civil rights movement.
Mr Lewis is the author of three books, including an account of the struggle for civil rights and his most recent, Make no Law: the Sullivan case and the First Amend- ment, about the ground-breaking Supreme Court ruling applying the principle of free speech to libel law.
For 15 years he has lectured at the Harvard Law School, dealing with the Constitution and the press.
Mr Lewis has been a visiting lecturer at many universities and held the James Madison Visiting Professorship at New York's Columbia University.
He lives in Boston and is married to Justice Margaret Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.