1990 Council On Ideas Members

Georgie Anne Geyer
Although based in Washington, DC, journalist Georgie Anne Geyer has spent much of her professional life abroad, traveling extensively in South America, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Currently a syndicated columnist, Geyer writes on foreign policy and international affairs for 120 American and Latin American papers including the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times. Geyer is the author of seven books, including Guerrilla Prince: the untold story of Fidel Castro (1990) and her most recent, Americans No More (1996), a controversial treatise on the death of citizenship in America.

Lawrence K. Grossman
Lawrence K. Grossman has been a prominent figure in broadcast media for many years, including eight years as President and CEO of the Public Broadcast Service (PBS) from 1976-84, and four years as President of NBC News (1984-88). Currently President of PBS Horizons Cable, Grossman has just published The Electronic Republic (1996). A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, Grossman was a Senior Fellow at the Gannett Center of Media Studies at Columbia University (1989-91), and a distinquished Visiting Professor at the University of Miami (1993). Among his many writings are Reflections on Life Along the Electronic Superhighway (1994) and American Television: Beyond the Wasteland (1991).

Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein is the author of a number of hit Broadway plays including The Heidi Chronicals, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner in Drama and 1989 Tony Award winner for best play. She also penned The Sisters Rosensweig the 1993 recipient of the Outer Critics Circle Award. Her other works include Uncommon Women and Others and Isn't It Romantic?. A lifelong New Yorker, Wasserstein recently shared her love of the theatre in her first children's book, Pamela's First Musical (1996). Wasserstein is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.