Nathaniel Lande

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Nathaniel Lande was a journalist, author, and filmmaker with a career spanning several decades. He is the author of ten books including Cricket and Dispatches from the Front: A History of the American War Correspondent, and was a creative force behind Time Inc. during his tenure.

The holder of two patents, he is credited for creating the Electronic Book and the Bookbank, a computerised electronic storage and retrieval system.^{[citation needed]}

His most recent novel, While The Music Played, was released in May 2020 by Blackstone Publishing.^[3]

He was educated at the Avon Old Farms School, Duke University, and earned his PhD at Trinity College Dublin in 1992.^[4]

As a professor, he has held appointments to the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and Distinguished Scholar to Trinity College Dublin.

His career spans publishing, television, and films. Creative Director for the Magazine Group, Time Inc., Director of Time World News Service, a founding director of Time-Life Films; executive producer for the CBS and NBC television networks; producer/director: Movies of the Week: CBS Cinema Center Films and Universal MCA.

At CBS he began his career in the mailroom, and was selected by Michael Dann and William Paley, to work for the head of Programming.^{[citation needed]} Then he joined the producing staff of PM East, hosted by Mike Wallace, with Peter Lassally (who became producer of The Tonight Show at NBC). By night, the producers searched for talent, discovering Woody Allen at the Bon Soir, a small club in New York, and Barbra Streisand at One Fifth Avenue, and were the first to book them on national television.^{[citation needed]}

While Creative Director for the Magazine Group at Time Inc., he innovated presentations^{[clarification needed]} for the publishers of the magazines writing musical revues: All About Life, One for the Money, and 10 the Musical, for Life, Money, and People magazines respectively. Each combined editorial content and publishing attributes. They were mini Broadway revues touring the country targeting advertisers. His creators included Scott Ellis and Susan Stroman, who became Broadway directors. Susan Stroman is best known for Contact and The Producers.^[5] As Director of Time World News Service, he broadcast Time stories to America and 70 countries around the world, writing and producing over 800 radio broadcasts.^[6]

Montage and Window on the World are two of the films and documentaries Nathaniel Lande wrote, produced and directed at Time, Inc., winning over 20 gold medals and international awards, including the New York and Cannes Film Festival^[5] With Gregory Peck, Lande served as a special White House aide under two United States Presidents. Part of his duties included producing White House events. His productions of Salute to Congress and a history of presidential campaign songs called Sing Along with Millard Fillmore, starring Walter Cronkite as narrator, were performed for the Congress.^[7]

He is author of eleven books including two novels. His book Cricket is partly autobiographical, a coming of age story and triumph over a childhood handicap, and received critical acclaim from The New York Times and Publishers Weekly.^{[citation needed]} He and his central character Jonathan Landau could not speak for the first nine years of their lives. The real Lande and fictional Landau made significant contributions to the first Special Olympics.

His other works include The 10 Best of Everything (bestseller for National Geographic Books), An Ultimate Guide for Travelers, and Dispatches from the Front.

Lande's novel, The Life and Times of Homer Sincere, Whose Amazing Adventures are Documented by his True and Trusted Friend Rigby Canfield, was released by Overlook Press in May 2010.

Lande's latest book, While The Music Played, is a story of courage and friendship in WWII, and was released in May 2020.

• Mindstyles-Lifestyles, Price Stern Sloan
• The Emotional Maintenance Manual, Rawson and Wade
• The Morality and Responsibility of the Press, Time Inc.
• Self Health, The Life Long Fitness Book, Holt, Rinehardt, Winston
• Stages, Understanding How You Make Moral Decisions, Harper Collins
• Cricket, A Novel, New American Library
• Blueprinting, HarperCollins
• Dispatches from the Front: A History of the American War Correspondent, Henry Holt.
• Trade Paperback, Oxford University Press
• The Cigar Connoisseur, Clarkson Potter
• The Ten Best of Everything: Passport to the Best, An Ultimate Guide for Traveler, National Geographic Books
• The Life and Times of Homer Sincere, Whose Amazing Adventures are Documented by his True and Trusted Friend Rigby Canfield, Overlook Press
• While The Music Played, Blackstone Publishing
• Spinning History: Politics and Propaganda in World War II, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc

• Official Authors Guild Site
• Pen Profile
• Nathaniel Lande at IMDb