Lane, Charles

Charles Lane discovered the Colfax Massacre case while covering the Supreme Court for "The Washington Post," His journalism career has taken him from Washington to Tokyo, Berlin to Bosnia, Havana to Johannesburg. A former editor of "The New Republic," Lane has written for "Foreign Affairs," "The New York Review of Books," and "The Atlantic," He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard and studied law at Yale. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.