Lee Eisenberg

Lee Eisenberg (born July 22, 1946) is an American editor and author. He was the editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Eisenberg is the author of several books, including The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life, which appeared on many national bestseller lists. His latest book is The Point Is: Birth, Death, and Everything in Between, published in February, 2016 by Twelve Books, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group. Education A Philadelphia native, Eisenberg was inducted into the Central High School hall of fame in 1988 in celebration of the school's 150th anniversary. He went on to study at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1968, and then received a master's degree at the Annenberg School for Communication. Early career Esquire Shortly before completing his education, Eisenberg entered a contest and won a job as a junior editor at Esquire magazine. The contest, devised by then editor Harold Hayes, required entrants to rewrite headlines and captions of that month's issue of Esquire (October, 1969).