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His first Pulitzer Prize was in 1955 for reporting on the U.S. Government's loyalty program, and specifically on the dismissal of a Navy employee who was not informed of the nature of the accusations against him, nor of his accusers. Lewis's articles led to the employee's reinstatement. He won a second Pulitzer Prize in 1963 for his coverage of the United States Supreme Court . He has frequently written on the Court and matters of Constitutional Law . Lewis has taught at Columbia University 's Graduate School of Journalism since the mid-'70s, and has held the school's James Madison chair in First Amendment Issues since 1982. He lectured at Harvard from 1974 to 1989 and has been a visiting lecturer at several other colleges and universities, including the Universities of Arizona, California, Illinois, and Oregon. Anthony Lewis was born in New York City; he attended the Horace Mann School in New York and Harvard College , where he earned a BA in 1948. While at Harvard, he was an editor of the '' Harvard Crimson ''. Noam Chomsky has said that Anthony Lewis is at "the far left of the spectrum" that is available in the mainstream media, and thus is useful in discovering the tacit assumptions that underlie all mainstream discussion. He is married to Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court Of Massachusetts , who was formerly the General Counsel and Vice-President at Harvard University . She wrote the majority opinion in '' Goodridge V. Department Of Public Health '', which legalized Gay Marriage in Massachusett s. He has three children from his first marriage, Eliza, David, and Mia, and seven grandchildren, Lily, Evie, Miranda, Thea, Jack, Zoe and Beatrice. BOOKS Sole or Primary Author
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