Lis Harris
Encyclopedia
Lis Harris is an American journalist
and author
and was for 25 years a staff writer on The New Yorker
magazine which she left in 1995. She is now an associate professor of writing at Columbia University
.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and was for 25 years a staff writer on The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
magazine which she left in 1995. She is now an associate professor of writing at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
.
Major publications
- Holy Days : The World Of The Hasidic Family , Touchstone books 1995 ISBN 0-684-81366-1
- Rules of Engagement - Four Couples and American Marriage , Touchstone books 1996 ISBN 0-684-82527-9
- Tilting at Mills : Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze, Houghton Mifflin 2003 ISBN 0-395-98417-3
New Yorker Articles
- O Guru, Guru, Guru, The New Yorker, November 14, 1994