Lewis H. Lapham was the editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1976 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 2006. In 2006 he founded Lapham's Quarterly. His columns received the National Magazine Award in 1995 for exhibiting "an exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity", and, in 2002, the Thomas Paine Journalism Award. He was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editor's Hall of Fame in 2007. His other books include Money and Class in America, Fortune's Child, Imperial Masquerade, The Wish for Kings, Hotel America, Waiting for the Barbarians, Theater of War, The Agony of Mammon, Gag Rule, Pretensions to Empire, and Age of Folly. He died July 24, 2024.