Lance Morrow, a journalist and author whose elegant essays, often with historical sweep, appeared for two decades on Time magazine’s back page when it was a significant corner of American opinion journalism, died Dec. 5 at his home in Spencertown, N.Y., in Columbia County. He was 85.
His wife, Susan Brind Morrow, said the cause was prostate cancer.
Hired by Time in 1965, Mr. Morrow initially wrote about celebrities for its People section, an assignment he hated, he said. But he soon began reporting on the riots in Detroit in 1967 and the Vietnam War.
