Comedy Dept. co-chief Mike Berkowitz will use the 656-page biography by Susan Morrison to kick off periodic book assignments ...

Longtime ‘New Yorker’ editor and writer Susan Morrison set out to write a biography of the historically press-averse ...

There has been “an air of kismet” about Susan Morrison’s 10-years-in-the-making biography of Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, the author said. The New Yorker editor ...

SNL is the longest-running, most Emmy-nominated, and highest-rated weekly late-night show in television history. How has ...

Lorne Michaels, the inimitable man behind “Saturday Night Live,” has his story definitively told for the first time in a new ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator, executive producer and Grand Poobah of “SNL,” wasn’t pleased by its “mawkish righteousness,” ...

But New Yorker editor Susan Morrison has finally given the public an intimate look at Michaels with her new biography, Lorne. In addition to shadowing Michaels for a full week as he and his ...

Do we also need a book about Lorne Michaels? Somehow, despite all of the above, Susan Morrison’s “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” — out Tuesday — emerges as ...

The book chronicles Michael ... Brien tells Morrison, “Whenever I’m sitting around a table with anyone in the comedy world, there’s a gravitational pull to talk about Lorne.” ...

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,' Susan Morrison goes behind the scenes of a tense meeting just days before the 2006 upfronts.

Susan Morrison's biography of the late-night comedy producer is also the history of a pop culture institution, now marking ...

How has Michaels done it? Ten years ago, Susan Morrison, articles editor at The New Yorker, rolled up her sleeves to find out. Susan is the author of the newly released title “Lorne: The Man Who ...