Lee Kravitz is the author of Unfinished Business and was editor-in-chief of Parade magazine from 2000 until he was fired in 2008.
Scholastic, Inc.
From 1987 to 1995, Kravitz was an editorial director of Scholastic Inc., an educational publishing company.[1] He oversaw several classroom magazines, including Choices, Science World, Search, Update,[2] and Junior Scholastic.[3] He also served as director of new media and special projects for the company's 37 magazines.[4] Among the products and programs he developed were the Scholastic/NBC News Videos with Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric, "Write Lyrics!" with Elektra Records, "SuperScience with Molly and Bert", an animated distance-learning series on Georgia Public Television, Scholastic NewsFax and the National Student Town Meeting Series on C-SPAN.[4]
React
Kravitz came to Parade in 1995 to launch React.[5] He also managed react.com, a website aimed at teenagers.[6]React reached a weekly circulation of 3 million through 245 newspapers before its close in June 2000.[6][7]
An honors graduate of Yale University[29] and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,[30] Kravitz grew up in Cleveland, Ohio,[31] where he attended University School.[32] He began his career as a freelance writer and photojournalist, traveling to more than 40 countries.[33] He and the magazines under his direction have received more than 200 journalism awards.[33] In 1992, he won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for "'Scholastic SEARCH: The Bill of Rights,' an innovative publication using rich stories to illustrate how the Bill of Rights affects students' daily lives."[34] He was also awarded the President's Award from the Association of Educational Publishers for his contributions to that industry.[33]
Personal life
Kravitz lives in Manhattan[35] and Clinton Corners, New York,[36] with his wife, the literary agent Elizabeth Kaplan,[37] and their three children: Benjamin, Caroline, and Noah.[38] He is the author of Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things, published by Bloomsbury USA.[39]