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Lawrence Otis Graham
Lawrence Otis Graham (December 25, 1961 – February 19, 2021) was an American attorney, political analyst, cultural influencer and author.
Lawrence Otis Graham was born on December 25, 1961, to Richard and Betty Graham. His parent were born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee where his grandparents owned and operated a trucking company during the Jim Crow era.
When he was 5 years old, Graham's parents decided to purchase a residential family home in a neighborhood in Westchester County, New York. As Graham later described it, "We were the only black family in our all-white upper middle-class White Plains neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s." This influenced Graham's interest in the pursuit of racial equality and justice.
While his father employed in New York in the field of real estate management, Graham and his older brother were raised in Mount Vernon, New York[citation needed], and later nearby White Plains, New York. There, Graham attended White Plains High School, where he wrote for the school newspaper, The Orange.
Graham went on to attend Princeton University, where he majored in English, was a member of Whig-Clio and the Carl A. Fields Center (formally, the Third World Center), and was recognized as an active in social-justice issues. After graduating Princeton with a Bachelor of Arts in English, Graham went on to earn a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. Afterwards, he practiced as a corporate lawyer in Manhattan.
Lawrence Otis Graham was a corporate lawyer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and a real estate attorney at Cuddy & Feder as well as a New York Times bestselling author of 14 non-fiction books on the subject of politics, education, race, and class in America. His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Reader's Digest (where he served as a contributing editor), Glamour, and U.S. News & World Report. His book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class (HarperCollins) was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Essence Magazine bestseller, as well as a selection of the Book of the Month Club. A television series based on the book began airing on the Fox network in the fall of 2021.
Graham's book The Senator and The Socialite: the Story of America’s First Black Political Dynasty (HarperCollins) is a biography of U.S. Senator Blanche Bruce, the first black person to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. Graham is also the author of such books as The Best Companies for Minorities (Penguin Books) and Proversity: Getting Past Face Value (John Wiley & Sons)—two guides on diversity in the workplace—as well as Member of the Club (HarperCollins) which was originally a cover story on New York Magazine, and was later optioned for a feature film by Warner Brothers. Denzel Washington was scheduled to play Graham but the film was never made.
Graham appeared on numerous TV programs including Charlie Rose, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today Show, The View, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Good Morning America, and was profiled in USA Today and TIME.
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Lawrence Otis Graham
Lawrence Otis Graham (December 25, 1961 – February 19, 2021) was an American attorney, political analyst, cultural influencer and author.
Lawrence Otis Graham was born on December 25, 1961, to Richard and Betty Graham. His parent were born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee where his grandparents owned and operated a trucking company during the Jim Crow era.
When he was 5 years old, Graham's parents decided to purchase a residential family home in a neighborhood in Westchester County, New York. As Graham later described it, "We were the only black family in our all-white upper middle-class White Plains neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s." This influenced Graham's interest in the pursuit of racial equality and justice.
While his father employed in New York in the field of real estate management, Graham and his older brother were raised in Mount Vernon, New York[citation needed], and later nearby White Plains, New York. There, Graham attended White Plains High School, where he wrote for the school newspaper, The Orange.
Graham went on to attend Princeton University, where he majored in English, was a member of Whig-Clio and the Carl A. Fields Center (formally, the Third World Center), and was recognized as an active in social-justice issues. After graduating Princeton with a Bachelor of Arts in English, Graham went on to earn a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. Afterwards, he practiced as a corporate lawyer in Manhattan.
Lawrence Otis Graham was a corporate lawyer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and a real estate attorney at Cuddy & Feder as well as a New York Times bestselling author of 14 non-fiction books on the subject of politics, education, race, and class in America. His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Reader's Digest (where he served as a contributing editor), Glamour, and U.S. News & World Report. His book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class (HarperCollins) was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Essence Magazine bestseller, as well as a selection of the Book of the Month Club. A television series based on the book began airing on the Fox network in the fall of 2021.
Graham's book The Senator and The Socialite: the Story of America’s First Black Political Dynasty (HarperCollins) is a biography of U.S. Senator Blanche Bruce, the first black person to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. Graham is also the author of such books as The Best Companies for Minorities (Penguin Books) and Proversity: Getting Past Face Value (John Wiley & Sons)—two guides on diversity in the workplace—as well as Member of the Club (HarperCollins) which was originally a cover story on New York Magazine, and was later optioned for a feature film by Warner Brothers. Denzel Washington was scheduled to play Graham but the film was never made.
Graham appeared on numerous TV programs including Charlie Rose, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today Show, The View, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Good Morning America, and was profiled in USA Today and TIME.