Eric Zorn was born on January 6, 1958. Zorn is a 1980 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he was an arts section editor at the Michigan Daily and an imaginative writing/English literature major. After he served an internship at the Miami Herald for four months, he came to work at the Chicago Tribune from 1980 forward. After five years as a feature writer and TV/radio columnist in the Tempo section of the paper, he went to the metropolitan news staff, where in 1986, he became a news-feature columnist.
His column, Hometowns, developed gradually into his eponymous news commentary column. It moved from Metro to Commentary in July, 2009, and now runs Tuesdays and Thursdays on the front of the metropolitan section and in the Sunday Perspective package. In August of 2003, he started the Tribune's first Web log, which appears five days a week at chicagotribune.com. In July, 2006, highlights of that web log began appearing in the Sunday print editions of the paper.
He is a co-author of the 1990 book, Murder of Innocence, a study of the life and tragic disruption of Winnetka schoolhouse killer Laurie Dann.
Zorn and Mary Schmich, who is a fellow Chicago Tribune metro columnist, occasionally write a week of columns that consist of a back-and-forth exchange of letters. An apprentice folk musician, each December Zorn joins with Schmich to host "Songs of Good Cheer," holiday parties at the Old Town School of Folk Music to raise money for the Tribune Holiday Fund charities.
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http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/about.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-ericzorn,0,3641457,bio.columnist
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