John E. Morris

John E. Morris is a journalist, writer and editor, and the author of two books.

The most recent is Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System (2020), a lavishly illustrated history and celebration of New York's subway packed with original research and 200 rarely seen photos, maps and illustrations. His aim was to capture what's marvelous, surprising, aggravating and comical about the system and its history, with frequent digressions into subjects such as the city's raucous politics, the struggle to create a good subway map, passenger etiquette and changes in the way the movies and TV have portrayed the subway over time.

Morris is also co-author with David Carey of King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone (2010), a best-selling history of Blackstone Group and the private equity industry. The book tells the story of the personalities that built Blackstone into the world's largest alternative assets firm, while setting the business in its historical and competitive context. King of Capital has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Turkish.

Morris has covered business, finance and law in the U.S and Europe for Bloomberg, Dow Jones, The Deal and The American Lawyer magazine. He was a philosophy major at the University of California, Berkeley and earned a law degree at Harvard.