Lee Eisenberg spent seventeen years at Esquire,
where he served
as editor-in-chief through the 1980s. He was
recruited by Harold Hayes,
who was widely regarded as one of the most
influential magazine editors
of the era. Within six years Eisenberg had
assumed oversight of the
title.
In
1983, he conceived and commissioned the magazine's widely
admired
Fiftieth Anniversary issues, including "50 Who Made the
Difference,"
which featured original text by such writers as Truman
Capote, Norman
Mailer, Gore Vidal, Nora Ephron, Tom Wolfe, and Richard
Ford, among
others. The issue received a National Magazine Award, one
of many the
magazine won during this period.
In 1995, Eisenberg
was hired to oversee creative development at TIME
magazine. He helped launch TIME for
Kids, a newsmagazine
for children, and was involved with many of
TIME's initial online
activities. He also worked on a number of special
issues and projects,
including a two-year TIME-CBS News collaboration
known as The TIME
100. It chronicled the lives and
accomplishments of the most influential
people of the century. The series culminated with
the selection of TIME's
Person of the Century.
In 1999, Eisenberg was appointed Executive
Vice President and Creative
Director at Lands' End, where he oversaw all
creative and marketing
activities. In 2003, he was promoted to the
company's Office of the
President, and served as Chief Creative and
Administrative Officer.
He resigned in March 2004 to begin work on The
Number.
Eisenberg has written numerous magazine
articles and columns, as well
as several books. Titles include The Ultimate
Fishing Book (Houghton
Mifflin); and Atlantic City: 100 Years of
Ocean Madness (Clarkson
Potter). Breaking Eighty, Eisenberg's
account of his two-year
attempt to master the complications and
intricacies of golf, was published
in 1997 by the Hyperion Press. His work has
appeared in Fortune,
Money, The New York Times, among
many other publications.
Eisenberg was also one of the founding
fathers of Rotisserie League
Baseball. Born in Philadelphia, Eisenberg is a
graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania. He earned a master's degree from
the Annenberg School
for Communication.
He and his family divide their time between
Madison, Wisconsin, and Chicago.
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