Jim Lehrer (born May 19, 1934 in Wichita, Kansas) is the news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. He attended middle school in Beaumont, Texas, and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas, where he was one of the three sports editors at the Jefferson Declaration. He graduated from Victoria College in Texas and the University of Missouri.

After three years in the US Marine Corps, he began his news career in Dallas, first as a newspaperman, and then later as the anchor on a local news show. Lehrer started work with PBS in 1972, and in 1975 started The MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Robert MacNeil. The show was later renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and in its most recent incarnation is known as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

In 1999 Lehrer was awarded the presidential National Humanities Medal.

Nicknamed the "Dean of Moderators" [1] by CNN's Bernard Shaw, Lehrer has been the moderator for ten debates among candidates vying for President of the United States of America. Most recently he moderated the first presidential debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry on September 30, 2004.

He is married to the novelist Kate Lehrer , and has three children and six grandchildren.

Written Works

Books

• False Moves (Random House, 2005) ISBN 1400061989
• Flying Crows: A Novel (Random House, 2004) ISBN 1400061970
• 20 Good Reasons to Study the Civil War by John C. Waugh, Jim Lehrer (McWhiney Foundation Press, 2004) ISBN 1893114465
• No Certain Rest (Random House, 2002) ISBN 0375503722
• The Special Prisoner (Random House, 2000) ISBN 0375503714
• White Widow (Random House, 1999) ISBN 0517361485
• Purple Dots (Random House, 1998) ISBN 0679452370
• The Last Debate (Random House, 1997) ISBN 0517177617
• Fine Lines (Random House, 1995) ISBN 0517164353
• Blue Hearts (Random House, 1993) ISBN 0679422161
• A Bus of My Own (Putnam, 1992) ISBN 0399137653
• Short List (Putnam, 1992) ISBN 0399136657
• Lost and Found (Putnam, 1991) ISBN 0399136010
• The Sooner Spy (Putnam, 1990) ISBN 0399135367
• Crown Oklahoma (Putnam, 1989) ISBN 0399134344
• Kick the Can (Putnam, 1988) ISBN 039913350X
• We Were Dreamers (Atheneum, 1975) ISBN 0689106939
• Viva Max!

Films

Viva Max! (1970) writing credit with Elliott Baker

Plays

• The Will and Bart Show
• Church Key Charlie Blue
• Chili Queen

External links

• Homepage of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Biography