Laurence Irwin Barrett (born September 6, 1935[1]) is an American journalist and author associated with Time, for whom he worked from 1965 until his retirement in 1993.
Barrett joined the New York Herald-Tribune in 1957[3] and covered New York City Hall issues for the paper from 1959 to 1962[4] before becoming its Washington correspondent.[5] He published The Mayor of New York, a novel, in 1965.
Barrett joined Time in 1965,[3] and, after being a senior editor for six years, returned to reporting in early 1975 as head of its New York office.[4][6] He was Time's White House correspondent from 1981 to 1985, and then its national political correspondent,[7] before becoming deputy Washington bureau chief.[6] He returned to the position of national political correspondent in mid-1991.[citation needed] Barrett retired from Time in 1993.[8]
After his retirement in 1993, Barrett became vice president of a Washington public relations firm,[8][11] and a member of the Advisory Board of the Washington Center for Politics & Journalism.[12]
Gambling with History: Reagan in the White House, Doubleday, 1983
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^ abR. Reginald (1979), Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700–1974, Volume Two of Two, contains Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II, Gale Research, p808-9
^New York Times, July 25, 1988, His first marriage of 25 years was to Paulette Singer Barrett, with whom he has three sons; Paul, David, and Adam. Martha Patterson Wed To Laurence I. Barrett
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