Anthony Lewis, 1927-2013

“Anthony Lewis, a former New York Times reporter and columnist whose work won two Pulitzer Prizes and transformed American legal journalism, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.” Lewis, whose book Gideon’s Trumpet “concerned Gideon v. Wainwright, the 1963 decision that guaranteed lawyers to poor defendants charged with serious crimes,” was predeceased by the guarantee.