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Cover: Illustration by Nigel Holmes; photographs, clockwise from top, by Dirck Halstead, Brad Markel -- Gamma/ Liaison and Dennis Brack -- Black Star
Barbara Ann Markel...
...fact, Lewis had two stints at the Times. During his first tour of duty, he did not fare so well. Immediately after graduation from Harvard, he went to work for Lester Markel, the "tyrannical and brilliant" editor of the newspaper's "Review of the Week" section, book reviews, and Sunday magazine. Lewis eagerly began writing summaries of each week's major events, but he soon discovered he was not well-suited for the job: "I came from The Harvard Crimson to a job where I really should have known something about the world and the way people live...
Lewis soon left the Times, after Markel told him he was not getting anywhere at the paper. Essentially, The New York Times fired Lewis...
...Markel Maplewood...