Eric Zorn
Eric Zorn is an American former op-ed columnist and daily blogger for the Chicago Tribune who specialized in local news as well as politics.
Early life and education
Zorn is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he majored in English literature and creative writing.He is the grandson of the mathematician Max Zorn, author of Zorn's lemma.
Career
After serving a four-month internship at the Miami Herald, Zorn started working for the Chicago Tribune in summer 1980. He has been a columnist for it since 1986. About four times a year for some years, Zorn and fellow Tribune columnist Mary Schmich wrote a week of columns that consisted of a back-and-forth exchange of letters. Each December since 1999, Schmich and Zorn have hosted the "Songs of Good Cheer" holiday caroling parties at the Old Town School of Folk Music to raise money for the Tribune Holiday Fund charities.Zorn co-wrote the 1990 book Murder of Innocence, about Laurie Dann. The book served as the basis for a 1993 made-for-TV movie of the same name. From 2003, Zorn penned "Change of Subject", the Tribunes first blog.
When Alden Global Capital took control of the Chicago Tribune in the spring of 2021, Zorn was among the many columnists and other journalists who accepted a buyout offer from the company. His final column appeared on June 27, 2021. In September of that year he began writing The Picayune Sentinel, a newsletter named after the newsletter once published by his grandfather, Max Zorn.