Lloyd Morrisett

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lloyd Newton Morrisett, Jr. is an American experimental psychologist with a career in education, communications, and philanthropy. He is one of the founders of the Children's Television Workshop, the organization famous for the creation of the children's television shows Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and many others. He is married to Mary Pierre Morrisett. They have two children - Sarah Elizabeth Otley and Julie Margaret Morrisett. He is the son of Jessie Watson and Lloyd Newton Morrisett, Sr. The family lived in Oklahoma City in the 1920s before moving to New York City in 1933 to escape the hardships brought about by the Dust Bowl and the Depression. After the Great Depression, the family moved to California, where Morrisett met Julian Ganz, a middle school classmate who would later introduce him to Joan Ganz Cooney, the co-founder of Children's Television Workshop.