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James M. Lawrence is the founder of Harrowsmith, Equinox, Harrowsmith Country Life, and EatingWell Magazines. He is currently relaunching CORAL Magazine as editor and publisher. CORAL serves an international audience of marine scientists, amateur and professional aquarists, and coral reef ecologists. It is the English-language edition of Koralle, published by Natur und Tier-Verlag in Münster, Germany. Other international editions appear in France, Italy, Poland, and Russia.
As a book publisher, he has founded Camden House Publishing Ltd., Chapters Publishing Ltd., and Microcosm, Ltd. Microcosm is a pioneering proponent of sustainable harvest practices on coral reefs and in other areas supplying the international aquarium trade.
Lawrence is the recipient of a number of National Magazine Awards in Canada, for writing, editing, art direction, and publishing achievement, including the National Magazine Awards Magazine of the Year in 1977 for Harrowsmith and 1981 for Equinox. He received a James Beard Awards Foundation Award for Best Magazine Writing in 2005 and edited the Beard Award Winning Eating Well Diet Cookbook in 2007.
He is the author or editor of the following books: The Harrowsmith Reader, The Harrowsmith Sourcebook, Sweet Maple, The New Marine Aquarium, The Conscientious Marine Aquarist, Natural Marine Aquariums, and other titles.
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