Eric Zorn is a columnist and a blogger for the Chicago Tribune. Zorn plays and is an advocate for folk music. A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... The Chicago Tribune, formerly self-styled as the Worlds Greatest Newspaper, remains one of the principal daily newspapers of the midwestern United States. ... Folk Music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the common people. ...

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. This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ... The Michigan Daily is the daily student newspaper of the University of Michigan. ... For information about a medical intern, see the article on Medical residency. ... The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

He is a co-author of the 1990 book, Murder of Innocence, a study of the life and tragic rampage of Winnetka schoolhouse killer Laurie Dann. Winnetka is the name of some places in the United States of America: Winnetka, Los Angeles, California Winnetka, Illinois This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Laurie Wasserman Dann (c. ...

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. Each December, Zorn and Schmich host the "Songs of Good Cheer" holiday caroling parties at the Old Town School of Folk Music to raise money for the Tribune Holiday Fund charities. Mary Schmich is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. ... The Old Town School of Folk Music is a Chicago teaching and performing institution that launched the careers of many notable folk music artists. ...

Family

Eric Zorn's wife, Johanna Zorn, is founder and executive director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival on Chicago Public Radio. They have three children: Alex (1989) and twins Annalise and Ben (1997). Johanna Zorn is founder and executive director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival from Chicago Public Radio. ... The Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) is a celebration of the best feature and documentary audio work heard worldwide on the radio and the Internet. ... Chicago Public Radio is a noncommercial public radio station in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Zorn is the grandson of mathematician Max Zorn and of noted Indiana historian John D. Barnhart. [1] Max August Zorn (June 6, 1906 in Krefeld, Germany - March 9, 1993 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA) was a German-born American mathematician. ...

His parents teach at the University of Michigan—Jens C. Zorn in physics, and Frances B. Zorn in composition and medical careers.

Trivia

• Zorn may have been the first to advocate the "forever stamp" for postage in a column in December 1994.[2]

• He was an early promoter of the laser measuring system for first downs in football.[3]

• He can no longer dunk a basketball.[4]

• In May 2006, he wrote a column coining "Zorn's Law,"[5] stating that, in any debate, the first person to hurl the insult, "get a life!" is the loser. He then attempted to promote it on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as "a whim and a stunt".

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External links

• Eric Zorn's columns on Chicago Tribune
• Change of Subject (weblog)
• EricZorn.com