By Marcia Lee, Host, A Living History of Bronxville

May 6, 2015:  From 1991 to 2006, 123 residents of Bronxville were interviewed by former mayor Marcia Lee for the cable TV program A Living History of Bronxville. Each interview ran approximately 45 minutes and covered the person's service to the community, his or her professional accomplishments, and his or her family background.

Starting this month, MyhometownBronxville will post one interview a month. This month's interview is of noted author and biographer Walter Isaacson.

Mr. Isaacson was interviewed on March 5, 2004. At the time of the interview, he was preparing to leave Bronxville and move to Washington, DC, to become the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a position that he holds today. 

Before that, he was the managing editor of Time magazine, the chairman and CEO of CNN, and author of Kissinger: A Biography and Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Since then, he has written two more acclaimed biographies, one on Albert Einstein and the other on Steve Jobs. His newest book is The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.

Isaacson was born in New Orleans in 1952 and educated at Harvard and the University of Oxford; he and his wife, Cathy, have one daughter and live in Washington, DC.

To see the interview, click on this link: https://youtu.be/4cBooa7edSE.

Pictured here:  Bronxville Village Hall.

Photo by A. Warner