Eric Zorn

Eric Zorn is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Zorn plays and is an advocate for folk music.

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Zorn is a 1980 graduate of the University of Michigan, in which he was a senior editor at the Michigan Daily and a creative writing/English literature major. After he had served a four-month internship at the Miami Herald, he came to work at the Chicago Tribune from 1980 forward. After five years as a feature author and radio columnist in the Tempo portion of the paper, he went to the metro news section. In 1986 he became a news-feature columnist. His column, Hometowns, developed gradually into his eponymous comment column.

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He is a co-author of the book of 1990, "Murder of Innocence," a study of life and tragic rampage of Winnetka schoolhouse killer Laurie Dann.

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About four times a year, Zorn and fellow Chicago Tribune metro columnist Mary Schmich write a week of columns that consist of a back-and-forth exchange of letters.

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His wife, Johanna Zorn, is founder and executive director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival on Chicago Public Radio.

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Eric Zorn is the grandson of mathematician Max Zorn.

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Chicago Tribune: The Chicago Tribune, formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", remains the leading daily newspaper of the Midwestern United States....

Folk music: Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. Folk music arose, and best survives, in societies not yet affected by mass communication and the commercialization of culture. It normally was shared and performed by the entire community (not by a special class of exper...

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