Roger Rosenblatt

Roger Rosenblatt is a journalist, author, playwright and teacher. His essays for The NewsHour have won a Peabody and an Emmy award. His essays for Time magazine have won two George Polk Awards, awards from the American Bar Association, the Overseas Press Club, and others.  He has also been a columnist and editor-at-large for Life magazine, the editor of U.S. News & World Report, a columnist and editorial board member of The Washington Post.  His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, Esquire and elsewhere.

A Fulbright scholar with five honorary doctorates, Roger has a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he taught writing and modern literature from 1968-73.  He is the author of eleven books, including Rules for Aging, three collections of essays, and Children of  War, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize.  He has written four off-Broadway plays and Lapham Rising is his first novel. 

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