Anthony Lewis, Pultizer-Prize Winning Columnist, Dead at 85

Worked for the New York Times more than 30 years

Anthony Lewis, a journalist and author who won two Pulitzer Prizes and penned a column for The New York Times for more than three decades, died early this morning, his wife said. He was 85.

He died at home of complications of renal and heart failure, his wife, former Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court chief justice Margaret Marshall, told the Globe.