Lipton, Eric

Eric Lipton is a noted journalist who created an extensive body of work on the attack on the World Trade Center and its aftermath. Lipton received degrees in philosophy and history from the University of Vermont. In 1987 he began his daily newspaper career at The Valley News in Lebanon, New Hampshire. From 1989 to 1994, he worked at The Hartford Courant . While writing for The Courant, he won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism alongside another journalist for their story about the flaw in the main mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Lipton then joined the staff of The Washington Post, where he covered the end of Marion Berry's tenure and the arrival of Mayor Anthony Williams. In 1999 he began work as a Metropolitan reporter at The New York Times . He was initially based in City Hall and covered Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and city affairs. After the events of September 11th, he began to specialize in coverage of the World Trade Center attacks and its effects on the city. Lipton often collaborated on articles with fellow Times reporter James Glanz, and their stories on the World Trade Center were chosen as finalists for a Pulitzer in Explanatory Journalism in 2002. Stories Lipton and Glanz wrote were also a part of the Nation Challenged package that won a Pulitzer for Public Service in 2002. Their major collaboration was on their book, City In The Sky (2003), a history of the rise and fall of the World Trade Center. In 2008, Lipton received an honorary degree from the University of Vermont.

From the guide to the Eric Lipton World Trade Center research files, 1945-2003, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)

James Glanz is a journalist for The New York Times and a physicist who received his Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. He started his career in journalism with Research and Development Magazine in 1991 before moving to Science magazine in 1995. While writing for these publications, he honed his skills as a reporter on astronomy, cosmology and physics as well as military and technological topics like missile defense and nuclear weapons. In 1995, he published his first book, Saving Our Soil: Solutions for Sustaining Earth's Vital Resource .

Glanz joined The New York Times as a science reporter in 1999. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, before either of the twin towers had fallen, he was given the assignment of understanding and reporting on their structure. He went on to write dozens of articles about the World Trade Center, researching its construction and the science behind its collapse. Glanz began co-writing stories on the World Trade Center with Eric Lipton (fellow Times reporter) and some of these were chosen as finalists for a Pulitzer in Explanatory Journalism in 2002. Essays written by the two were also a part of the Nation Challenged package that won a Pulitzer for Public Service in 2002. In 2003 the two collaborated to write City In The Sky, a history of the rise and fall of the World Trade Center. Glanz was appointed Baghdad Bureau chief at The New York Times in 2007.

From the guide to the James Glanz World Trade Center research files, 1885-2003, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)